sarcina

See also: sarcină and Sarcina

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to mend”), whence also sarciō (“I patch, mend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsar.ki.na/, [ˈs̠ärkɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsar.t͡ʃi.na/, [ˈsärt͡ʃinä]

Noun

sarcina f (genitive sarcinae); first declension

1. a package, pack
2. (figuratively) burden, weight, sorrow
3. (in the plural) baggage, luggage

   Synonyms: vāsum, impedimentum

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sarcina	sarcinae
Genitive	sarcinae	sarcinārum
Dative	sarcinae	sarcinīs
Accusative	sarcinam	sarcinās
Ablative	sarcinā	sarcinīs
Vocative	sarcina	sarcinae

Derived terms

• sarcinālis
• sarcinārius
• sarcinātor
• sarcinātrīx
• sarcinātus
• sarcinōsus
• sarcinula

Descendants

• Aromanian: sartsinã
• Barese: sarcene
• Istro-Romanian: sårcirĕ
• Italian: sarcina
• Neapolitan: sarcina
• Romanian: sarcină
• Spanish: sarcina

References

• “sarcina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sarcina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sarcina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sarcina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sarcina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers