English → Latin
“sanctity” in Latin
sānctitāsinviolability, sacredness, sanctity; holiness, virtue, piety, integrity, honour, chastitycaerimōniareligious ceremony, ritual; sacredness, sanctity; reverence, veneration, awereligiōscrupulousness, conscientious exactness; piety, religious scruple, religious awe, superstition, strict religious observa
The English word sanctity itself goes back to Latin sanciō, through sānctitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sanctity
sanctitas (sacredness; of a place or person; then also = holiness, moral purity, or goodness): caerimonia (the sacredness of a being or thing which occasions dread and veneration): religio (sacredness of a place or thing, inasmuch as the violation of it is considered a crime): pietas erga Deum (piety). Sanctity of a league, foederis religio; sancta fides societatis: to lose its sanctity (of a place, etc.), religionem amittere: to violate the sanctity of a place, loci religionem violare; locum religione liberare: he utterly disregards the sanctity of treaties, apud eum nihil societatis fides sancti habet. Vid: HOLINESS.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sanctity?
- The usual Latin words for “sanctity” are sānctitās, caerimōnia, religiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.