 The Latin word "sacrificium" came to apply to the Christian eucharist in particular, sometimes named a "bloodless sacrifice" to distinguish it from blood sacrifices.In individual non-Christian ethnic religions, terms translated as "sacrifice" include the Indic "yajna", the Greek "thusia", the Germanic "blōtan", the Semitic "qorban"/"qurban", Slavic , etc.The term usually implies "doing without something" or "giving something up" (see also self-sacrifice).