Sacrum Definition

sākrəm, săkrəm
sacra, sacrums
noun
A thick, triangular bone situated near the lower end of the spinal column, where it joins both innominate bones to form the dorsal part of the pelvis: it is formed in humans of five fused vertebrae.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sacrum

Noun

Singular:
sacrum
Plural:
sacra, sacrums

Origin of Sacrum

  • New Latin from Late Latin (os) sacrum sacred (bone), sacrum (translation of Greek hieron (osteon) sacred (bone)) (so called from the use of the sacrum and coccyx of sacrificed animals in divination) neuter of Latin sacer sacred, holy sacred

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin ōs sacrum (“holy bone"), translation of Ancient Greek ἱερόν (hieron) ὀστέον (hieron osteon). Called so either because supposedly sacrum was the part of an animal offered in sacrifice or because of the belief that the soul of the man resides there.

    From Wiktionary

Sacrum Sentence Examples

  • In many birds some of the thoracic vertebrae are more or less coOssified, in most pigeons for instance the 15th to 17th; in most Galli the last cervical and the next three or four thoracics are coalesced, &c. The pelvic vertebrae include of course the sacrum.

  • His map formed a parallelogram measuring 75,800 stadia from Usisama (Ushant island) or Sacrum Promontorium in the west to the mouth of the Ganges and the land of the Coniaci (Comorin) in the east, and 46,000 stadia from Thule in the north to the supposed southern limit of Libya.

  • Accordingly recourse is had, tinder the direction of the Sibylline books, to new forms of appeal for the divine help, the general vowing of the ver sacrum and the elaborate Greek lectisternium after Trasimene in 217 B.C., and the human sacrifice in the forum after Cannae in the following year.

  • The tail is generally very short, and its basal vertebrae are often fused with the sacrum.

  • In 1574, during the pontificate of Gregory XIII., a stone was dug up in the island of the Tiber bearing the inscription - " Semoni Sango Deo Sacrum Sex.

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