sacrilegium

Derived from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”) +‎ -ium (nominalizing suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.kriˈle.ɡi.um/, [s̠äkrɪˈɫ̪ɛɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.kriˈle.d͡ʒi.um/, [säkriˈlɛːd͡ʒium]

sacrilegium n (genitive sacrilegiī or sacrilegī); second declension

1. The robbing of a temple, stealing of sacred objects, sacrilege.
2. Violation of sacred things, profanation, sacrilege.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “sacrilegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacrilegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacrilegium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sacrilegium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sacrilegium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sacrilegium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin