saccus

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin saccus (“a sack, bag”), from Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sákkos, “coarse cloth of hair; sack, bag”), from Semitic. Doublet of sac, sack, saco, and sakkos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæk.əs/
• Rhymes: -ækəs

Noun

saccus (plural sacci)

1. (botany) A bladder or winglike structure found on the pollen grains of many species of conifer. The shape or number of the sacci on a pollen grain can help identify the species it came from.
2. Alternative form of sac.

Derived terms

• saccate

Related terms

• sacciferous
• saccule
• sacculus

Translations

structure found on conifer pollen

• Catalan: vesícula aerífera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣囊／气囊 (zh) (qìnáng)

References

• “saccus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sákkos, “coarse cloth of hair; sack, bag”), from Semitic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.kus/, [ˈs̠äkːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.kus/, [ˈsäkːus]

Noun

saccus m (genitive saccī); second declension

1. a sack, bag
   1. a purse, wallet, moneybag

      Synonyms: sacculus, marsūpium, alūta, crumēna, fiscus, follis

2. (transferred sense, Ecclesiastical Latin) a garment of sackcloth or haircloth
   • 1979, Bible (Nova Vulgata), Apocalypsis Ioannis:

     Et vidi, cum aperuisset sigillum sextum, et terraemotus factus est magnus, et sol factus est niger tamquam saccus cilicinus, et luna tota facta est sicut sanguis,

     I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	saccus	saccī
Genitive	saccī	saccōrum
Dative	saccō	saccīs
Accusative	saccum	saccōs
Ablative	saccō	saccīs
Vocative	sacce	saccī

Synonyms

• (bag, travel-sack): pēra, mantica, vīdulus, āverta
• (net-bag): rēticulum
• (water-skin): culleus, uter

Derived terms

• saccārius
• saccellus
• sacceus
• saccibuccis
• saccīnus
• saccipērium
• saccō
• sacculus

 

Related terms

• saccātum
• saccellātiō
• sacculārius

Descendants

Descendants of saccus in other languages

• → Albanian: sak
• → Basque: zaku
• → Cornish: sagh
• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: sac
  • Romanian: sac
• → Irish: sac
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • → Italian: sacco
  • → Sicilian: saccu
• Old Occitan:
  • → Catalan: sac
  • → Occitan: sac
• → Old French: sac
  • French: sac
    • Haitian Creole: sak
    • → English: sac
    • → Moroccan Arabic: صاك
    • → Persian: ساک (sâk)
    • → Sedang: xak
• → Piedmontese: sach
• → Proto-Germanic: *sakkuz (see there for further descendants)
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • → Friulian: sac
  • → Romansch: satg, sac, sach
• Sardinian: sacu
• → Welsh: sach
• West Iberian
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: sacu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: saco
    • Galician: saco
    • Portuguese: saco
  • Old Spanish: saco
    • Spanish: saco
      • → Seri: saaco (“blouse”)
      • → Southeastern Tepehuan: saaku

References

• “saccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• saccus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• saccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “saccus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “saccus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “saccus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin