sacoma

From the Doric Greek σᾱ́κωμᾰ (sā́kōmă) form of σήκωμα (sḗkōma, “standard weight, counterpoise”), from σηκός (sēkós, “enclosure, pen”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saːˈkoː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈkɔː.ma]

sācōma n (genitive sācōmatis); third declension

1. counterpoise, counterweight

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• (counterpoise): lībrāmentum

• sācōmārius

• sācōmārium

• → Italian: sagoma

• “sacoma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sacoma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.