bisaccium

Latin

FWOTD – 27 October 2020

Alternative forms

• bisacia, bisaceium

Etymology

From bi- +‎ saccus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɪˈsak.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [biˈs̬at.t͡ʃi.um]

Noun

bisaccium n (genitive bisacciī or bisaccī); second declension

1. double saddlebag, twofold horse-holdall, wallet

   Synonyms: hippopērae, bulgae

   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 31.9:

     Ceterum in promulsidari asellus erat Corinthius cum bisaccio positus, qui habebat olivas in altera parte albas, in altera nigras.

     And in the foretray there was a Corinthian asslet with a wallet having olives in one end light and in one end dark.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	bisaccium	bisaccia
genitive	bisacciī bisaccī1	bisacciōrum
dative	bisacciō	bisacciīs
accusative	bisaccium	bisaccia
ablative	bisacciō	bisacciīs
vocative	bisaccium	bisaccia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Dalmatian: bisuog
  • → Czech: bisaci, bisahy
  • → Polish: bisaga
    • → Russian: бися́га (bisjága)
    • → Ukrainian: би́са́ги (býsáhy), бе́са́ги (bésáhy)
  • → Hungarian: besagi
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bisag m, bìsaga f
  • → Slovene: bisāga
  • → Lower Sorbian: bisagi pl
• French: besace, bissac
• Italian: bisaccia
• Piedmontese: bersac, bersacca
• Provençal: bissac, bisac
• Romanian: desagă f, desag m
• Sicilian: visazza
• Spanish: bezaza, bizaza, biaza
• → Old English: bīsæc
  • English: bysack
• → Byzantine Greek: δισάκιον (disákion), δισάκκιον (disákkion), δισάκκι (disákki)
  • Greek: δισάκι (disáki), βισάκι (visáki)
  • → Bulgarian: бисаги (bisagi), дисаги pl (disagi) (dialectal)

References

• “bisaccium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press