sacrificium — meaning in English

English meaning

• cereal noun A grass grown and harvested for its edible grain, such as wheat, rice, or oats.
• sacrifice verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.

Senses

sacrificium is used for these senses in English:

• cereal (countable) A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
• sacrifice A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
• sacrifice Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.

cereal — full definition

1. noun A grass grown and harvested for its edible grain, such as wheat, rice, or oats.
2. noun A breakfast food made from processed grain, usually eaten with milk.

sacrifice — full definition

1. verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
2. verb To give up something valuable for the sake of something considered more important.
3. noun The act of giving up something valuable for a greater cause, or the thing given up.

Related Latin words