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"with, together" (see <a href="/word/con-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of con- " class="crossreference notranslate">con-</a>) + <span class="foreign notranslate">sacrare</span> "to make or declare sacred" (see <a href="/word/sacred" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of sacred " class="crossreference notranslate">sacred</a>). Old English used <span class="foreign notranslate">eallhalgung</span> as a loan-translation of Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">consecratio</span>.</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:late%2014c.">late 14c.</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to consecration">Entries linking to <i>consecration</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of sacred" href="/word/sacred#etymonline_v_22580">sacred<!-- --> <!-- -->(adj.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>late 14c., "hallowed, consecrated, or made holy by association with divinity or divine things or by religious ceremony or sanction," past-participle adjective from a now-obsolete verb <span class="foreign notranslate">sacren</span> "to make holy" (c. 1200), from Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">sacrer</span> "consecrate, anoint, dedicate" (12c.) or directly from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">sacrare</span> "to make sacred, consecrate; hold sacred; immortalize; set apart, dedicate," from <span class="foreign notranslate">sacer</span> (genitive <span class="foreign notranslate">sacri</span>) "sacred, dedicated, holy, accursed." OED writes that, in <span class="foreign notranslate">sacred</span>, "the original ppl. notion (as pronunciation indicates) disappeared from the use of the word, which is now nearly synonymous with L. <span class="foreign notranslate">sacer</span>."</p> <p>This is from Old Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">saceres</span>, from PIE root <span class="foreign notranslate">*sak-</span> "to sanctify." Buck groups it with Oscan <span class="foreign notranslate">sakrim</span>, Umbrian <span class="foreign notranslate">sacra</span> and calls it "a distinctive Italic group, without any clear outside connections." De Vaan has it from a PIE root <span class="foreign notranslate">*shnk-</span> "to make sacred, sanctify," and finds cognates in Hittite <span class="foreign notranslate">šaklai</span> "custom, rites," <span class="foreign notranslate">zankila</span> "to fine, punish." Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Sacredness</span>. The Latin nasalized form is <span class="foreign notranslate">sancire</span> "make sacred, confirm, ratify, ordain" (as in <a href="/word/saint" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of saint " class="crossreference notranslate">saint</a>, <a href="/word/sanction" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of sanction " class="crossreference notranslate">sanction</a>). An Old English word for "sacred" was <span class="foreign notranslate">godcund</span>.</p> <p>The meaning "of or pertaining to religion or divine things" (opposed to <span class="foreign notranslate">secular</span> or <span class="foreign notranslate">profane</span>) is by c. 1600. The transferred sense of "entitled to respect or reverence" is from 1550s. <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>Sacred cow</strong></span> as an object of Hindu veneration is by 1793; its figurative sense of "one who or that which must not be criticized" is in use by 1910 in U.S. journalism, reflecting Western views of Hinduism. <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>Sacred Heart</strong></span> "the heart of Jesus as an object of religious veneration" is by 1823, short for <span class="foreign notranslate">Sacred Heart of Jesus</span> or <span class="foreign notranslate">Mary</span>.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of con-" href="/word/con-#etymonline_v_17294">con-<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>word-forming element meaning "together, with," sometimes merely intensive; it is the form of <a href="/word/com-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of com- " class="crossreference notranslate">com-</a> used in Latin before consonants except <span class="foreign notranslate">-b-, -p-, -l-, -m-</span>, or <span class="foreign notranslate">-r-</span>. In native English formations (such as <span class="foreign notranslate">costar</span>), <a href="/word/co-" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of co- " class="crossreference notranslate">co-</a> tends to be used where Latin would use <span class="foreign notranslate">con-</span>.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of consecration">Trends of <i>consecration</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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Corrupted in spelling by confusion with </section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="complete" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of ignominious" href="/word/ignominious"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">ignominious<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">early 15c., from Latin ignominiosus "disgraceful, shameful," from ignominia "disgrace, infamy, loss of a (good) name," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + nomen (genitive nominis) "name" (from PIE root *no-men- "name"). 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