sakrilegi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch sacrilegie, from Old French sacrilege, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”), from phrase sacrum legere, from sacrum (from sacer (“sacred, holy”)) legō (“gather; take, steal”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- and *leǵ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sak.riˈle.ɡi]
• Hyphenation: sak‧ri‧lé‧gi

Noun

sakrilégi (first-person possessive sakrilegiku, second-person possessive sakrilegimu, third-person possessive sakrileginya)

1. (Catholicism) sacrilege: desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred..

   Synonym: penistaan

Further reading

• “sakrilegi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.