sacr-, sacro-

The cursed hunger for gold.

Those who live only to acquire wealth are characterized by Virgil as having auri sacra fames, or of being "money-mad".

A collector of religious objects.

1. Extremely bad, or of very low quality: "He has execrable taste when it comes to clothes."
2. Deserving to be detested: "Her execrable behavior was disgusting."

Very bad: "He has always treated women execrably."

1. To feel loathing for someone or something.
2. To declare somebody or something to be loathsome.
3. To curse or to put a curse on someone or something.

1. An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group.
2. Hate coupled with disgust.
3. Something that is cursed or loathed.
4. Etymology: from Latin execrationem, a noun of action from execrari, "to hate, to curse"; from ex-, "out" + sacrare, "to devote to holiness, to consecrate"; from sacer, "sacred".

[From] here [we receive] light and sacred draughts [libations].

Motto of Cambridge University, U.K. It is also translated as, "Hence light and the sacred draughts [of wisdom]."

According to the Queens' College Web site (one of the colleges associated with Cambridge University), "[From] here [we receive] light and sacred draughts. The ‘here' being the University (or the Alma Mater, nursing mother), and ‘light and sacred draughts' being metaphors for knowledge."