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piacolo.

piaculum (sacrifice for expiatory purposes)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/piˈa.ko.lo/
  1. piaculum (sacrifice for expiatory purposes)

    literary · masculine · obsolete
  2. piaculum (victim offered as atonement for a sacrilege)

    literary · masculine · obsolete
  3. an offense to a deity requiring atonement; sacrilege, impiety

    literary · masculine · obsolete
  4. a disastrous event; disaster, misfortune

    literary · masculine · obsolete
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin piāculum (“propitiatory sacrifice, atonement”), from Proto-Italic *pīāklom (“sacrifice for expiatory purposes”), derived from *pīāō (“to expiate; to propitiate”), derived from *pīos (“pious, devout”), from Proto-Indo-European *puHyós, from *pewH- (“to be clean, pure”).

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