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saccus

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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.

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References

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

Latin

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Etymology

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Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor.
Latin saccus

    Borrowing from Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos, “coarse cloth of hair; sack, bag”).[1]

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    Noun

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    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,
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    Inflection

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    Second-declension noun.

    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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    Descendants
    • Eastern Romance:
      • Aromanian: sac
      • Romanian: sac
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Insular Romance:
    • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Old Leonese:
      • Old Galician-Portuguese: saco
      • Old Spanish: saco
        • Spanish: saco
          • → Seri: saaco (“blouse”)
          • → Southeastern Tepehuan: saaku
    • Borrowed:
      • → Albanian: sak
      • → Basque: zaku
      • → Proto-Brythonic: *sax
      • → Proto-Germanic: *sakkuz (see there for further descendants)
      • → Middle Irish: sacc (via either Old English or Old French)

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    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σάκκος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1302

    Further reading

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    • “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, 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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