sacrum

Etymology
From, a calque of. Apparently so called either because the sacrum was the part of the animal offered in sacrifice or because of a putative belief that it is where a person's soul resides. A third explanation is that the term is a translation of Ancient Greek, which has two meanings: “holy, sacred”, and “big” — big being a more appropriate description of the sacrum — but compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: һигеҙгүҙ
 * Bulgarian:, кръстна кост
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kugongkugong
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 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, spjaldliðir, spjaldhryggur
 * Ingrian: ristipiiluu
 * Irish: sacram
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 엉치뼈,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: sêbende
 * Maori: tikitona, tiraki, tiki
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ууцан яс , туух нуруу
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 * Swedish: korsben
 * Tagalog: kuyukot
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian: крижі
 * Vietnamese: xương mông
 * Welsh: sacrwm, asgwrn y cwman

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A holy or sacred object, e.g. statue, image, emblem, vessel, utensil.
 * 2) A holy or sacred place, e.g. sanctuary, shrine, temple.
 * 3) A religious act or observance, e.g. a sacrifice, festival, rite.
 * 4) Divine worship or religion.
 * 5) * c. 54-51 , Cicero, De re publica, 2.7.13
 * quo foedere et Sabinos in civitatem adscivit sacris conmunicatis et regnum suum cum illorum rege sociavit
 * By this compact he admitted the Sabines into the city, gave them a participation in the religious ceremonies, and divided his power with their king.
 * 1) The private religious rites of a family.
 * 2) * c. 51 , Cicero, De Legibus, 2.9.22
 * sacra privata perpetua manento
 * Let private devotions be perpetually practised.
 * 1)  Poems.
 * 2) * c. 8-18 AD, Ovid, Tristia, 4.10.19
 * at mihi iam puero caelestia sacra placebant inque suum furtim Musa trahebat opus
 * But even as a boy the heavenly poems delighted me, and the Muse was drawing me secretly to her work.
 * 1)  Secrets, mysteries.
 * 2) * 8 AD, Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.709
 * sacra tori coitusque novos thalamosque recentes primaque deserti referebam foedera lecti
 * I told Aurora of our wedding secrets and all refreshing mysteries of coition – and my first union on my now-deserted couch.
 * sacra tori coitusque novos thalamosque recentes primaque deserti referebam foedera lecti
 * I told Aurora of our wedding secrets and all refreshing mysteries of coition – and my first union on my now-deserted couch.

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