ver sacrum
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ver (“spring”) + sacer (“sacred”).
Noun
[edit]vēr sacrum n
- (religion) The religious practice of ancient Italic peoples carried out in times of crisis in which a generation of children born the following spring would, upon reaching adulthood, be sent to conquer a settlement and found their own in its place
References
[edit]- ver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ver”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ver sacrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ver sacrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Further reading
[edit]- See ver sacrum on Wikipedia.