sacrilege

• sacriledge (obsolete)

Circa 1300, original sense “stealing something sacred”. From Middle English sacrilege, from Old French sacrilege, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”), from phrase sacrum legere, from sacrum (from sacer (“sacred, holy”)) + legō (“gather; take, steal”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- and *leǵ-. Sense of “profanation” from late 14th century.[1]

Unrelated to religion, which is ultimately from ligō (“I tie, bind, or bandage”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsækɹɪlɪd͡ʒ/

sacrilege (usually uncountable, plural sacrileges)

1. Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.

• sacrilegious

• Gilcrease

From sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

sacrilegē (not comparable)

1. sacrilegiously, impiously

• (impiously): irreligiōsē, nefāriē

• “sacrilege”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacrilege”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎

First attested at the end of the 12th century, borrowed from Latin sacrilegium[1].

sacrilege m (oblique plural sacrileges, nominative singular sacrileges, nominative plural sacrilege)

1. sacrilege

• English: sacrilege
• French: sacrilège

sacrilege m or f or n (masculine plural sacrilegi, feminine and neuter plural sacrilege)

1. Obsolete form of sacrileg.

• sacrilege in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN