sarcina

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsar.kɪ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsar.t͡ʃi.na]

sarcina f (genitive sarcinae); first declension

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

   Synonyms: vāsum, impedimentum

First-declension noun.

• “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