Where does “human sacrifice” come from?
human sacrifice (English) comes from English sacrifice, from Middle English sacrifice, from Old French sacrifise, from Latin sacrificium, from Latin sacrificus, from Latin sacrificō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
human sacrifice (English): the killing of one or more human beings as part...
Definitions
- the killing of one or more human beings as part...
Ancestry of “human sacrifice”, step by step
human sacrifice traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English sacrifice
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sacrifice | To offer as a gift to a deity; To give away to... |
| 2 | Middle English | sacrifice | a sacrifice |
| 3 | Old French | sacrifise | sacrifice |
| 4 | Latin | sacrificium | Something made sacred or given to a deity,... |
| 5 | Latin | sacrificus | Of or pertaining to sacrificing, sacrificial;... |
| 6 | Latin | sacrificō | to sacrifice (something) |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via English Human
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Human | The language supposedly spoken by humans |
| 2 | Middle English | humayne | human |
| 3 | Middle French | humain | human; human being; human |
| 4 | Old French | humain | — |
| 5 | Latin | hūmānus | human (of man, people) |
| 6 | Latin | homō | human, person, man |
| 7 | Old Latin | hemō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hemō | man |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰmṓ | earthling |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéǵʰōm | earth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōm | emphatic suffix or postpositive particle |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -mi | — |