The corpus record — Latin

sacrificium

sacrificium · n

a sacrifice

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Where it lives

Adversus Judaeos Liber 31 · 27.62/10k
De idolatria 10 · 14.49/10k
Ad Scapulam 2 · 13.4/10k
De Oratione 3 · 6.68/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 5 · 6.64/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 2 · 6.36/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 3 · 5.08/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 7 · 4.01/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 3 · 3.95/10k

Densest 12 of 93 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

să_crĭfĭcĭum — Lewis & Short

să_crĭfĭcĭum, ii, n.id.,

I a sacrifice (class. and very freq. in sing. and plur.).

(a) Sing.: M. Popillius cum sacrificium publicum cum laenă faceret, quod erat flamen Carmentalis, Cic. Brut. 14, 56: epulare sacrificium facere, id. de Or. 3, 19, 73; cf.: sacrificio Apollini facto, Liv. 45, 27: sacrificium lustrale parare, id. 1, 28: sacrificio rite perpetrato, id. 44, 37 fin.: sollemne et statutum sacrificium, Cic. Tusc. 1, 47, 113: decem ingenui decem virgines... ad id sacrificium adhibiti, Liv. 37, 3: sacrifici genus est, Ov. P. 3, 2, 57.—

(b) Plur.: Druides sacrificia publica ac privata procurant, Caes. B. G. 6, 13: sacrificiis studere, id. ib. 6, 21: sacrificiis sollemnibus factis, Cic. Phil. 5, 9, 24; so, sollemnia, Liv. 5, 52: anniversaria, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57, § 128: publice ejusdem generis habent sacrificia, Caes. B. G. 6, 16; Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 96: sacrificia laeta, Liv. 36, 1: aliquem sacrificiis interdicere, Caes. B. G. 6, 13: sacrificia facere Libero Liberaeque, Col. 12, 18, 4: rex sacrificiorum, v. rex, A. 1.

In the wild

sacrificiaque Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.5.1.p3
sacrificio Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.14.p4
sacrificium Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.16
sacrificium Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.3.6
sacrificio Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.44.22.16
sacrificium Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.11e.6

6 of 339 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. sacrificium (scan p. 255; entry #3972).

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