Where does “sacrifice” come from?
sacrifice (Middle English) comes from Old French sacrifise, from Latin sacrificium, from Latin sacrificus, from Latin sacrificō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
sacrifice (Middle English): a sacrifice
Definitions
- a sacrifice
Ancestry of “sacrifice”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | sacrifise | sacrifice |
| 2 | Latin | sacrificium | Something made sacred or given to a deity,... |
| 3 | Latin | sacrificus | Of or pertaining to sacrificing, sacrificial;... |
| 4 | Latin | sacrificō | to sacrifice (something) |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |