The corpus record — Latin

sācōmārĭus

sācōmārĭus · adj

serving for a counterpoise

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What it meant

sācōmārĭus — Lewis & Short

sācōmārĭus, a, um, adj.sacoma,

I serving for a counterpoise, used for a weight in a balance: cucurbitae, Hier. in Jon. 4, 6.—Hence, substt.

A sācōmārĭus, ii, m., one who makes counterpoises or weights in gen.; called also PONDERARIVS, Inscr. Orell. 4274.—

B sācōmārĭum, ii, n., the public balance or weighing place, Inscr. Orell. 4109; 7194.

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.