sacrilege

Etymology
Circa 1300, original sense “stealing something sacred”. From, from , from , from , from phrase , from (from ) + , from  and. Sense of “profanation” from late 14th century.

Unrelated to, which is ultimately from , from Proto-Indo-European.

Noun

 * 1) Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَدْنِيس, تَرْجِيس
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: sacrilexu
 * Belarusian: святата́цтва, блюзне́рства, блюзьне́рства
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: sacrilegi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: helligbrøde
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sakrilegio
 * Estonian: pühaduseteotus
 * Finnish: pyhäinhäväistys
 * French:
 * Galician: sacrilexio
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἱεροσυλία
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: ардақты нәрсені қорлаушылық, ерекше қадірлі нәрсені қорлаушылық, қасиетті нәрсені масқаралаушылық
 * Korean:
 * Latin: sacrilegium
 * Macedonian: сквернавење
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: helligbrød
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: светогрђе
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: svätokrádež
 * Slovene: svetoskrunstvo,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: святота́тство,

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) sacrilegiously, impiously

Etymology
First attested at the end of the 12th century, borrowed from.