sacris

sacris is a Latin form of sacer, meaning “sacred, holy; accursed; (sacra, n. pl.) rites, sacrifices, worship”.

It can also be a form of sacrum, “sacred object, rite; (sacra) worship, sacrifices”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or dative plural neuter noun.

Found 280 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.50: … hi locus ad dicendum est constitutus; ut omnia signa iste per eos homines quos nominavi, omne ebur ex aedibus sacris, omnis undique tabulas pictas, deorum denique simulacra quae vellet auferret; deinde ut in curia Syracusis, q …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.228: hospes erat caesus. Sacris offensa nefandis

All forms of sacer (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.