saccus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saccus (“sack, bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic.

Noun

saccus (plural sacci)

1. (botany) A bladder or wing-like 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.

Related terms

• bisaccate
• monosaccate
• saccate

Translations

structure found on conifer pollen

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “sack, bag; sackcloth”), 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; purse, wallet.
2. A garment of sackcloth or haircloth.

Declension

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

• (purse): alūta, crumēna, fiscus, sacculus

Derived terms

Derived terms

• saccārius
• saccellus
• sacceus

• saccibuccis
• saccīnus
• saccipērium

• saccō
• sacculus

Related terms

• saccātum
• saccellātiō
• sacculārius

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: sac
  • Romanian: 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
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: sac
  • Romansch: satg, sac, sach
• Sardinian: sacu
• 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
• → Albanian: sak
• → Basque: zaku
• → Cornish: sagh
• → Proto-Germanic: *sakkuz (see there for further descendants)
• → Irish: sac
• → Welsh: sach

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