saccus

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsæk.əs/
• Rhymes: -ækəs

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.

• saccate

• sacciferous
• saccule
• sacculus

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.kus/, [ˈs̠äkːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.kus/, [ˈsäkːus]

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,

Second-declension noun.

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

• saccātum
• saccellātiō
• sacculārius

• “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