burnt offering

Senso (Inglese)

1. A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.
2. (broadly) Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
3. (humorous) Overcooked food.

Concetti

sacrificio

offerta bruciata

sinonimi

holocaust

Traduzioni

brandoffer

Brandopfer

holocauste

holocausto

holocaustum

Opfergabe

holocausto

ofrenda quemada

Feueropfer

sacrificio

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: brend offring

In summary

PIE word
*h₁epi
From Middle English brend offring, brend offringe, from brend (past participle of brennen (“to burn”)) + offring, offringe (“presentation of something as a religious offering; offering presented to God or another deity”), used in biblical texts to translate Late Latin holocaustum (“burnt offering wholly consumed by fire”) in the Vulgate version of the Bible. The English term is analysable as burnt + offering.