The corpus record — Latin

sacoma

sacoma · n

a counterpoise

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

sācōma — Lewis & Short

sācōma, ătis, n., = sh/kwma,

I a counterpoise, a weight precisely balancing something in the opposite scale: pendet ex altera parte aequo pondere phelli sacoma saburrale, Vitr. 9, 8, 8.—Hence, ad sacoma appendĕre, precisely, exactly, Vitr. 9, praef. § 9.

In the wild

sacoma Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.8.8

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.