sacral

English

Etymology

From Modern Latin sacrālis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪkɹəl/, /ˈsækɹəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækɹəl

Adjective

sacral (comparative more sacral, superlative most sacral)

1. (anatomy) Of the sacrum.
2. Sacred.
   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 877:

     An old site with sacral connotations.

   • 2005, Richard Oliver Collin, Revolutionary scripts: the politics of writing systems:

     Compromise is awkward when religion is involved, and the several South Asian writing systems are considered sacral.

Derived terms

• bulbosacral
• caudosacral
• cervicothoracolumbosacral
• craniosacral
• dorsosacral
• extrasacral
• iliosacral
• ischiosacral
• lumbosacral
• nonsacral
• occipitosacral
• parasacral
• postsacral
• presacral
• rectosacral
• sacral dimple
• sacralgia
• sacrality
• sacralize
• sacrally
• sacral nerve
• sacral vertebra
• spinosacral
• subsacral
• supersacral
• suprasacral
• transsacral
• urosacral
• uterosacral
• vertebrosacral

Translations

(anatomy) of the sacrum

• Bulgarian: на кръста (na krǎsta)
• Catalan: sacre (ca)
• Czech: křížový (cs)
• French: sacral (fr)
• Galician: sacro (gl)
• German: Kreuzbein- (de), sakral (de)
• Hungarian: keresztcsonti
• Icelandic: spjald-, spjaldbeins- (is), spjaldhryggjar-, krossliðs-
• Italian: sacrale (it)
• Occitan: sacral (oc)
• Polish: krzyżowy (pl)
• Russian: крестцо́вый (ru) (krestcóvyj), сакра́льный (ru) (sakrálʹnyj)
• Spanish: sacro (es)
• Ukrainian: крижо́ви́й m (kryžóvýj)

sacred

• Bulgarian: обреден (bg) (obreden)
• French: sacral (fr)
• Galician: sacro (gl)
• German: sakral (de)
• Hungarian: szakrális (hu)
• Indonesian: sakral (id)
• Occitan: sacral (oc)
• Polish: sakralny (pl)
• Russian: сакра́льный (ru) (sakrálʹnyj)
• Spanish: sacral
• Ukrainian: сакра́льний m (sakrálʹnyj), обрядо́вий m (obrjadóvyj)

Noun

sacral (plural sacrals)

1. Any of the sacral bones that make up the sacrum.

Further reading

• “sacral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sacral”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Claars, Rascal, craals, lascar, rascal, sarlac, scalar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kʁal/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophones: sacrale, sacrales

Adjective

sacral (feminine sacrale, masculine plural sacraux, feminine plural sacrales)

1. sacral (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “sacral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• raclas

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sacral. By surface analysis, sacru +‎ -al.

Adjective

sacral m or n (feminine singular sacrală, masculine plural sacrali, feminine/neuter plural sacrale)

1. sacral

Declension

Declension of sacral

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	sacral		sacrală	sacrali	sacrale
	definite	sacralul		sacrala	sacralii	sacralele
genitive- dative	indefinite	sacral		sacrale	sacrali	sacrale
	definite	sacralului		sacralei	sacralilor	sacralelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈkɾal/ [saˈkɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: sa‧cral

Adjective

sacral m or f (masculine and feminine plural sacrales)

1. sacral (sacred)

   Synonyms: sagrado, sacro

Further reading

• “sacral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025