Word Origin Summary

Sacer is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. sacrosOld Latinderived from
2. *sakrosProto-Italicinherited from
3. *seh₂k-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• sacro

  Spanish · borrowed from

• sacro

  Galician · borrowed from

• sagristà

  Catalan · derived from

• sexton

  English · derived from

• sakristan

  Cebuano · borrowed from

• sacru

  Romanian · borrowed from

• zakrystian

  Polish · derived from

• sacrilegious

  English · derived from

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