sacrosanct

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sacrōsānctus.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsæk.ɹoʊˌsæŋkt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

sacrosanct (comparative more sacrosanct, superlative most sacrosanct)

1. Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
   • 1960 December, B. Perren, “The role of the Great Central—present and future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 765:

     It will be noted that pre-grouping routes between London and Scotland are no longer sacrosanct—for example, Glasgow St. Enoch trains no longer run necessarily to St. Pancras.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Armeni:

     Closer investigation revealed these as millions of elaborate crypts a few meters below the surface, left by a long-extinct spacefaring species called the zeioph. Many human universities wish to perform archeological excavations. Council law holds grave sites as sacrosanct, however, and the matter has been tied up in court for a decade.

   • 2011 August 14, Kenneth R. Harney, “Homeowner mortgage write-off may be in jeopardy”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1]:

     After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct, why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block?

   • 2023 April 26, Benjamin Lee, quoting Steven Spielberg, “Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.

2. Sacred, very holy.

Wikiquote

Derived terms

• sacrosanctity
• sacrosanctness

Related terms

• sacred

Translations

beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable

• Bulgarian: неприкосновен (bg) (neprikosnoven)
• Catalan: sacrosant
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 不可侵犯嘅 (bat¹ ho² cam¹ faan⁶ ge³)

  Mandarin: 神聖不可侵犯 / 神圣不可侵犯 (shénshèng bùkě qīnfàn)

• Dutch: onaantastbaar (nl), onschendbaar (nl)
• French: sacro-saint (fr) m, sacrosaint (fr) m
• Georgian: ხელშეუხებელი (xelšeuxebeli), წმინდა (c̣minda)
• German: sakrosankt (de), unantastbar (de)
• Greek: απαραβίαστος (el) (aparavíastos)
• Hungarian: szent és sérthetetlen (hu)
• Irish: dosháraithe, fíorchoisricthe
• Italian: sacrosanto (it) m
• Japanese: 不可侵 (ja) (fukashin), 批判を許さない (hihan o yurusanai)
• Korean: 신성불가침의 (sinseongbulgachimui), 불가침 (bulgachim)
• Latin: sacrōsanctus
• Portuguese: sacrossanto (pt) m
• Russian: неприкоснове́нный (ru) (neprikosnovénnyj), свяще́нный (ru) (svjaščénnyj)
• Spanish: sacrosanto (es)
• Swedish: okränkbar (sv)
• Turkish: kutsal (tr)

sacred, very holy

• Bulgarian: свещен (bg) (svešten)
• Catalan: sacrosant
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神聖 / 神圣 (zh) (shénshèng)

• Dutch: sacrosant, gewijd (nl) heilig (nl), allerheiligst (nl)
• French: sacro-saint (fr), sacrosaint (fr)
• Georgian: წმინდა (c̣minda), წმინდათაწმინდა (c̣mindatac̣minda)
• German: sakrosankt (de), heilig (de), hochheilig (de)
• Ido: sakrosanta (io)
• Japanese: 神聖な (ja) (しんせいな, shinsei na)
• Plautdietsch: heilich
• Polish: przenajświętszy (pl)
• Romanian: sacrosanct (ro)
• Russian: свяще́нный (ru) (svjaščénnyj), свято́й (ru) (svjatój)
• Tagalog: kabanal-banalan

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} sacrosaint (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} sacro-saint (fr) m
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} неприкосно́вен m (neprikosnóven)
• Norwegian: sakrosankt, ^{(please verify)} fredlyst, ^{(please verify)} hellig og ukrenkelig

References

• “sacrosanct”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1989
• “sacrosanct”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacrosanctus.

Adjective

sacrosanct m or n (feminine singular sacrosanctă, masculine plural sacrosancți, feminine and neuter plural sacrosancte)

1. holy, sacred

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	sacrosanct		sacrosanctă		sacrosancți	sacrosancte
	definite	sacrosanctul		sacrosancta		sacrosancții	sacrosanctele
genitive- dative	indefinite	sacrosanct		sacrosancte		sacrosancți	sacrosancte
	definite	sacrosanctului		sacrosanctei		sacrosancților	sacrosanctelor