sacculus

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin sacculus (“a little sack or bag”), diminutive of saccus (“a sack, bag, purse”). Doublet of saccule.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.jʊl.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæk.jəl.əs/
• Rhymes: -ækjʊləs

Noun

sacculus (plural sacculi)

1. (obsolete) A small bag of herbs or medicinal substances, applied to the body.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection v:

     Sacculi, or little bags of herbs, flowers, seeds, roots, and the like, applied to the head […].

2. (anatomy) UK form of saccule.

References

• “sacculus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “sacculus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

Etymology

From saccus (“a sack, bag, purse”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.ku.lus/, [ˈs̠äkːʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.ku.lus/, [ˈsäkːulus]

Noun

sacculus m (genitive sacculī); second declension

1. Diminutive of saccus:
   1. a small bag or sack

      Synonyms: alūta, crumēna, fiscus, saccus

   2. a purse, scrip, satchel, sachet

      Synonyms: cassidīle, saccellus

   3. a little wine sack
   4. (New Latin) a backpack

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sacculus	sacculī
Genitive	sacculī	sacculōrum
Dative	sacculō	sacculīs
Accusative	sacculum	sacculōs
Ablative	sacculō	sacculīs
Vocative	saccule	sacculī

Derived terms

• sacculārius (noun)

Related terms

• saccellus
• saccellātiō
• sacceus
• saccibuccis
• saccipērium
• saccus
• saccārius
• saccātum
• saccīnus
• saccō

 

Descendants

Descendants of sacculus in other languages

• → Albanian: shakull
• Aromanian: sãculj
• → Catalan: sàcul
• → English: saccule, sacculus
• → French: saccule
• → Italian: saccolo, sacculo
• → Portuguese: sáculo
• Romanian: săcui
• → Spanish: sáculo

References

• “sacculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacculus 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)
• sacculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• The Poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus/13 on Wikibooks.Wikibooks