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.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ækəs
Noun
saccus (plural sacci)
- (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.
- Alternative form of sac.
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Translations
structure found on conifer pollen
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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
- a sack, bag
- (transferred sense, Ecclesiastical Latin) a garment of sackcloth or haircloth
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 |
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Descendants
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- → Albanian: sak
- → Basque: zaku
- → Cornish: sagh
- Eastern Romance
- → Irish: sac
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old Occitan:
- → Old French: sac
- → Piedmontese: sach
- → Proto-Germanic: *sakkuz (see there for further descendants)
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: sacu
- → Welsh: sach
- West Iberian
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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
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