The corpus record — Latin

sacrificus

sacrificus · adj

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 5 · 4.46/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Adversus Marcionem 7 · 0.85/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

să_crĭfĭcus — Lewis & Short

să_crĭfĭcus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to a sacrificing, sacrificial (poet.; not ante-Aug.): securis, Ov. M. 12, 249: dies, id. ib. 13, 590: ritus, id. ib. 15, 483: arae, Val. Fl. 8, 243: vestis, Sil. 3, 27: os, of those sacrificing, praying, Ov. F. 1, 130: Ancus, mindful of sacrifices or of religion in gen., id. ib. 6, 803; cf.: Numa, Luc. 9, 478: jugum, where human sacrifices were offered, Val. Fl. 4, 110: preces, Sen. Med. 38: rex, v. rex, I.

In the wild

sacrificiorum Boethius, De Fide Catholica 1
sacrificos Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.483
sacrifici Ausonius, Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 22.6
sacrifici Statius, Thebais 5.638
sacrificiorum Tertullian, De Oratione 28
Sacrificiorum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.18

6 of 41 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.