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sacrosanctus
sacrosanctus
Latin
Alternative forms
- sacrō sānctus
Adjective
sacrōsānctus m (feminine sacrōsāncta, neuter sacrōsānctum); first/second declension
- inaugurated or consecrated with religious ceremonies
- fixed or decreed as inviolable, sacred, sacrosanct
- (by extension) most holy, sacred or venerable
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | sacrōsānctus | sacrōsāncta | sacrōsānctum | sacrōsānctī | sacrōsānctae | sacrōsāncta | |
| genitive | sacrōsānctī | sacrōsānctae | sacrōsānctī | sacrōsānctōrum | sacrōsānctārum | sacrōsānctōrum | |
| dative | sacrōsānctō | sacrōsānctō | sacrōsānctīs | ||||
| accusative | sacrōsānctum | sacrōsānctam | sacrōsānctum | sacrōsānctōs | sacrōsānctās | sacrōsāncta | |
| ablative | sacrōsānctō | sacrōsānctā | sacrōsānctō | sacrōsānctīs | |||
| vocative | sacrōsāncte | sacrōsāncta | sacrōsānctum | sacrōsānctī | sacrōsānctae | sacrōsāncta | |
Related terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: sacrosant
- English: sacrosanct
- French: sacro-saint
- Portuguese: sacrossanto
- Romanian: sacrosanct
- Spanish: sacrosanto
References
- sacrosanctus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sacrosanctus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sacrosanctus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)
- the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)