# saccus
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsæk.əs/
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* saccate

#### Related terms

* sacciferous
* saccule
* sacculus

#### Translations
### References

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

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsak.kus/, [ˈs̠äkːʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsak.kus/, [ˈsäkːus]

### Noun

saccus m (genitive saccī); second declension
* a sack, bag
** a purse, wallet, moneybag
    Synonyms: sacculus, marsūpium, alūta, crumēna, fiscus, follis
* (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

Second-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* (bag, travel-sack): pēra, mantica, vīdulus, āverta
* (net-bag): rēticulum
* (water-skin): culleus, uter

#### 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
*** → Maltese: saqqu
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: sacu
* North Italian:
** Friulian: sac
** Piedmontese: sach
** Romansch: satg, sac, sach
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: sac
** Old French: sac
*** French: sac
**** Haitian Creole: sak
**** → English: sac
**** → Moroccan Arabic: صاك
**** → Persian: ساک (sâk)
**** → Sedang: xak
** Occitan: sac
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: sacu
** Old Galician-Portuguese: saco
*** Galician: saco
*** Portuguese: saco
** Old Spanish: saco
*** Spanish: saco
**** → Seri: saaco (“blouse”)
**** → Southeastern Tepehuan: saaku
* Borrowed:
** → Albanian: sak
** → Basque: zaku
** → Proto-Brythonic: *sax
*** Middle Breton: sach
**** Breton: sac'h
*** Old Cornish: sach
**** Cornish: sagh
*** Middle Welsh: sach
**** Welsh: sach
** → Proto-Germanic: *sakkuz (see there for further descendants)
** → Middle Irish: sacc (via either Old English or Old French)
*** → Irish: sac

### References

* ↑ 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

* “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