The corpus record

σακκο-φόρος

sakkophoros

wearing coarse hair-cloth

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What it meant

σακκο-φόρος · sakko-phoros — LSJ

wearing coarse hair-cloth

wearing coarse hair-cloth, Plu. Apophth. Lac. 2.239c: -φόροι, οἱ, name of a religious sect, MAMA 1.171 (Laodicea Combusta, iv A.D.), Cod.Just. 1.5.5; cf. σακηφόρος.

2 porter

porter, PTeb. 39.26 (ii B.C.), 141 ii 7 (iii A.D.): σακοφ-, Sammelb. 3939.7.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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