English
pseudosacrifice
From pseudo- + sacrifice.
Formed from pseudo- + sacrifice
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
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Latin faciō ‘to make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect’
Latin sacrificium ‘something offered to a deity, sacrifice’
Old French sacrifise
Middle English sacrifice ‘act of offering a life or object to a deity’
English sacrifice
Today it means
noun Something resembling a sacrifice that is not a true sacrifice, especially (chess) an offer of material made at no risk, since acceptance would lead to the gain of equal or greater material or checkmate.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / pseudosacrifice