English

Noun

sacculus ‎(plural sacculi)

1. (obsolete) A small bag of herbs or medicinal substances, applied to the body.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.v:

     Sacculi, or little bags of herbs, flowers, seeds, roots, and the like, applied to the head […].

2. (anatomy, biology) A small sac.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsak.ku.lus/, [ˈsak.kʊ.ɫʊs]

Noun

sacculus m ‎(genitive sacculī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• sacculārius

Related terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sacculus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• The Poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus, WikiBooks. URL accessed on 2009-05-16.