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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to mend”), whence also sarciō (“I patch, mend”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sarcina f (genitive sarcinae); first declension
- a package, pack
- (figuratively) burden, weight, sorrow
- (in the plural) baggage, luggage
- Synonyms: vāsum, impedimentum
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “sarcina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sarcina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sarcina 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)
- sarcina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sarcina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers