sacrificer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
Example Sentences
- "Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards; For Antony is but a limb of Caesar: Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius."
- "In this you’have made the Court the Antipodes, And will’d your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne, To doe profane autumnall offices, Whilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne;"
- "So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks, Before an Altar led, an offer’d Ox, His Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;"
- "[…] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós Proto-Italic *sakros Archaic Latin sakros Old Latin sacros Old Latin *sakr̥s Old Latin *sakerr Latin sacerder. Latin sacrum Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin sacrificiumlbor. Old French sacrifisebor. Middle English sacrifice English sacrifice Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English sacrificer From sacrifice + -er.
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Synonyms
sacrificant
sacrificator
sacrificatrix
sacrificial priest
sacrificial priestess
sacrificing priest
sacrificing priestess