sacre

• (General American) enPR: sāʹkər, IPA^(key): /ˈseɪkɚ/

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From Middle English sacren, sakeren (“to make holy, hallow”), from Old French sacrer (“to hallow, consecrate, anoint, dedicate”), from Latin sacrō (“to make sacred, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós (“sacred”), from *seh₂k- (“to sanctify, to make a treaty”).

sacre (third-person singular simple present sacres, present participle sacring, simple past and past participle sacred)

1. (obsolete) To consecrate.
   • c. 1382-1395, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe), Exodus 28:41,

     And thou schalt clothe Aaron, thi brother, with alle these, and hise sones with hym. And thou schalt sacre the hondis of alle; and thou schalt halewe hem, that thei be set in preesthood to me.

   • 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume II, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     And I purpose this night to sacre you all with the Holy Incense.

   • 1911, “Aix-la-Chapelle”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     From the coronation of Louis the Pious in 813 until that of Ferdinand I. in 1531 the sacring of the German kings took place at Aix, and as many as thirty-two emperors and kings were here crowned.

sacre (plural sacres)

1. Alternative form of saker (“type of cannon”).

• cares, caser, acers, ceras, scare, serac, Ceras, Creas, Cesar, sérac, Carse, Races, CERAs, Crase, e-cars, caers, carse, races, SERCA, acres, Cares, scear, crase

Borrowed from Latin sacrum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsa.kɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsa.kɾe]

sacre (feminine sacra, masculine and feminine plural sacres)

1. synonym of sagrat

   el Sacre Imperi romanogermànic ― the Holy Roman Empire

• “sacre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “sacre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From sacrer.

• IPA^(key): /sakʁ/

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sacre m (plural sacres)

1. coronation
2. (Quebec, often in the plural) swear word, curse

sacre

1. inflection of sacrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• âcres, caser, César, crase, créas, races, scare

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.kre/
• Rhymes: -akre
• Hyphenation: sà‧cre

sacre f pl

1. feminine plural of sacro

• Resca, rasce

Borrowed from Old French sacree and sacre. Probably influenced by Old French sacré, past participle of Old French sacrer.

• sacri, sakare

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːkreː/

sacrē

1. sacred

sacrē (plural sacres)

1. A religious festival
2. A consecration, especially the coronation of a monarch

From Old French sacre, sagre.

• sagre

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːkrə/, /ˈsaːkər/

sacre (plural sacres)

1. A saker falcon, especially a female

• sacrette

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sacre”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.kre]

sacre f pl or n pl

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of sacru

Borrowed from French sacré.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsakɾe/ [ˈsa.kɾe]
• Rhymes: -akɾe
• Syllabification: sa‧cre

sacre m (plural sacres)

1. (New Mexico) curse

   Synonym: maldición

• Rubén Cobos (2003) A Dictionary of New Mexico & Southern Colorado Spanish‎^[1], Museum of New Mexico Press, →ISBN

• “sacre”, 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