Sacrifier à Vénus
Meaning: To have sex.
Language: French
Literally: To sacrifice to Venus
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: Sacrifier comes from Latin sacrificare, to offer up to a deity, but in the 17th century sacrifier à took the figurative sense 'to do the will of'. So this is to do the will of Venus, goddess of love — the same root that gives French vénérien. Attested with this meaning from the early 19th century and now largely forgotten, unlike the activity.
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