sacré
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See also: sacre
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Past participle of sacrer.
Adjective
[edit]sacré (feminine sacrée, masculine plural sacrés, feminine plural sacrées)
- sacred, holy
- 1890, Ernest Renan, L'Avenir de la Science, page 494:
- Le Golgotha ne devint sacré que deux ou trois siècles après Jésus.
- Golgotha only became sacred in the third or fourth century AD.
- religious
- 1836, Alfred de Musset, Confessions d'un enfant du siècle:
- J’aime par-dessus tout la musique sacrée, et ce morceau […] m’avait paru très beau.
- I like religious music best of all, and this piece […] seemed to me very beautiful.
- absolute
- 1792, Florian, Fables, page 178:
- Les dettes du jeu sont sacrées.
- Gambling debts must be paid.
- very important
- Sa sieste, c’est sacré. ― His/her nap is sacred.
- (intensifier) bloody, goddamn (in this sense, always before the noun)
- Expresses the admiration of the speaker
- sacré toupet ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- sacrée allure ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- cré and sacrebleu, sacredieu (sacré nom de Dieu)
- feu sacré
- monstre sacré
- sacré nom
- sapré
- sacrément
- union sacrée
- Union sacrée
- vache sacrée
Participle
[edit]sacré (feminine sacrée, masculine plural sacrés, feminine plural sacrées)
- past participle of sacrer
Etymology 2
[edit]From sacrum.
Adjective
[edit]sacré (feminine sacrée, masculine plural sacrés, feminine plural sacrées)
- sacral; related to the sacrum
- plexus sacré ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Further reading
[edit]- “sacré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.