sacral

From Modern Latin sacralis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) +‎ -alis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪkɹəl/, /ˈsækɹəl/

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• Rhymes: -ækɹəl

sacral (comparative more sacral, superlative most sacral)

1. (anatomy) Of the sacrum.
2. Sacred.
   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 877:

     An old site with sacral connotations.

   • 2005, Richard Oliver Collin, Revolutionary scripts: the politics of writing systems:

     Compromise is awkward when religion is involved, and the several South Asian writing systems are considered sacral.

sacral (plural sacrals)

1. Any of the sacral bones that make up the sacrum.

• “sacral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sacral”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Claars, Rascal, craals, lascar, rascal, sarlac, scalar

• IPA^(key): /sa.kʁal/

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• Homophones: sacrale, sacrales

sacral (feminine sacrale, masculine plural sacraux, feminine plural sacrales)

1. sacral (clarification of this definition is needed)

• “sacral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• raclas

Borrowed from French sacral. By surface analysis, sacru +‎ -al.

sacral m or n (feminine singular sacrală, masculine plural sacrali, feminine and neuter plural sacrale)

1. sacral

• IPA^(key): /saˈkɾal/ [saˈkɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: sa‧cral

sacral m or f (masculine and feminine plural sacrales)

1. sacral (sacred)

   Synonyms: sagrado, sacro

• “sacral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024