The corpus record — Latin

sacco

to strain through a bag

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

sacco — Lewis & Short

sacco, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a. saccus, to strain through a bag, to strain, filter.

I Lit.: saccata aqua (opp. turbida), Sen. Ep. 86, 11; Plin. 18, 7, 17, § 77; 29, 2, 10, § 35; 33, 6, 34, § 104 al.: Caecuba, to filter, Mart. 2, 40, 5.—

II Transf., of urine: saccatus umor corporis, Lucr. 4, 1028; Ser. Samm. 6, 77.

In the wild

saccant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.6.p4
saccatum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.7.p16
saccatusque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.6.p8
saccatum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1028
saccata Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.86.11
saccatur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.2.p2

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.