Horrors: A couple typos in Episode 13 of Sam Bassett: “sacrilegious” is probably one of the most frequently mis-spelled words by analogy with “religion.”
“Owing to the phonetic similarities between the words sacrilegious and religious, and their spiritually-based uses in modern English, many people mistakenly assume that the two words are etymologically linked, or that one is an antonym of the other. Religious is derived from the Latin word religio, meaning “reverence, religion”, (from religare, “to bind [to the god{s}]”; Tully derived it from re- [again] and legere [to read]), whereas sacrilegious is derived ultimately from the Latin combining form sacr-, meaning sacred, and the verb legere, meaning “to steal”, “to collect”, or “to read”. The Latin noun sacrilegus means “one who steals sacred things”. (Wikipedia)
Horrors: A couple typos in Episode 13 of Sam Bassett: “sacrilegious” is probably one of the most frequently mis-spelled words by analogy with “religion.”
“Owing to the phonetic similarities between the words sacrilegious and religious, and their spiritually-based uses in modern English, many people mistakenly assume that the two words are etymologically linked, or that one is an antonym of the other. Religious is derived from the Latin word religio, meaning “reverence, religion”, (from religare, “to bind [to the god{s}]”; Tully derived it from re- [again] and legere [to read]), whereas sacrilegious is derived ultimately from the Latin combining form sacr-, meaning sacred, and the verb legere, meaning “to steal”, “to collect”, or “to read”. The Latin noun sacrilegus means “one who steals sacred things”. (Wikipedia)