sacrifício

See also: sacrificio

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sacrifiçio, sacrifiço, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrificō (“to sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred”) + faciō (“do, make”). Displaced Old Portuguese sacrifiço.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sa.kɾiˈfi.si.u/ [sa.kɾiˈfi.sɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /sa.kɾiˈfi.sju/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sa.kɾiˈfi.si.u/ [sa.kɾiˈfi.sɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /sa.kɾiˈfi.sju/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sa.kɾiˈfi.si.o/ [sa.kɾiˈfi.sɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /sa.kɾiˈfi.sjo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐ.kɾiˈfi.sju/, /sɐ.kɾɨˈfi.sju/

• Hyphenation: sa‧cri‧fí‧ci‧o

Noun

sacrifício m (plural sacrifícios)

1. (religion) sacrifice (something sacrificed)
2. (religion) sacrification (act of sacrificing)
3. (figurative) ordeal (painful or trying experience)
4. (Christianity, theology) the crucifixion of Jesus

Hyponyms

• (sacrification): imolação, holocausto

Related terms

• sacrificado
• sacrificador
• sacrifical
• sacrificante
• sacrificar
• sacrificativo
• sacrificatório
• sacrificável
• sacrifice
• sacrificial
• sacrificialmente
• sacrífico
• sacrifículo