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sacrifice

French, noun/sa.kʁi.fis/

sacrifice is a French masculine noun meaning “sacrifice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action par laquelle on offre certaines choses ou certaines victimes aux dieux, ou à Dieu, avec certaines…”.

What does sacrifice mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesacrifice

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action par laquelle on offre certaines choses ou certaines victimes aux dieux, ou à Dieu, avec certaines cérémonies, pour rendre hommage à sa souveraine puissance. 2. Abandon volontaire de quelque chose ; privation que l’on s’impose, ou qu’on accepte, pour l’amour de Dieu ou d’une personne, ou en considération de quelque chose. 3. Concession que l’on accepte de faire. 4. Cérémonie ; sacrement.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of sacrifice

  • sacrifices plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce sacrifice?

  • /sa.kʁi.fis/
  • \sa.kʁi.fis\
  • [sa.kʁi.fis]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to sacrifice

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is sacrifice in French?

sacrifice appears 11 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).