sacré

sacré (FR ADJ) pertaining to a separate, inviolable, and forbidden domain, (opposed to profane) and containing reverent religious significance; worthy of absolute respect, having absolute value; sometimes used as an epithet, expletive. First appears in French in the 12th century, from Latin sacramentum, root sacr- (sacred, taboo). (Apollinaire, Ronsard, Silvestre)