sacculus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacculus. Doublet of saccule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsakjʊləs/

Noun

sacculus (plural sacculi)

1. (obsolete) A small bag of herbs or medicinal substances, applied to the body.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and Iames 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, biology) A small sac.

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of saccus (“sack, bag, purse”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sacculus m (genitive sacculī); second declension

1. A small bag or sack; purse, sachet.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

Synonyms

• (purse): alūta, crumēna, fiscus, saccus
• (small bag): cassidīle, saccellus

Derived terms

• sacculārius

Related terms

Related terms

• saccārius
• saccātum
• saccellātiō
• saccellus

• sacceus
• saccibuccis
• saccīnus

• saccipērium
• saccō
• saccus

Descendants

• Aromanian: sãculj
• Catalan: sàcul
• English: saccule, sacculus
• French: saccule

• Italian: saccolo, sacculo
• Portuguese: sáculo
• Romanian: săcui

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, WikiBooks. URL accessed on 2009-05-16.