different between saccular vs acinus

English

Etymology

From saccule +? -ar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sak.j?l.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæk.j?l.?/
• Rhymes: -ækj?l?(?)

Adjective

saccular (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Relating to a saccule.
2. (anatomy) Having the form of a series of sacs or pouches; sacculate.

Derived terms

References

• “saccular”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “saccular”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• accruals, caraculs

English

Etymology

From Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs?n?s/

Noun

acinus (plural acini)

1. (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
2. (botany) A grape-stone.
3. (anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
   • 1828, Jones Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy

     Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]

Derived terms

• acinar
• acinic

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From aci?s (“sharp point”), due to the presence of a sharp seed inside the grape.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ki.nus/, [?äk?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.t??i.nus/, [???t??inus]

Noun

acinus m (genitive acin?); second declension

1. a berry, especially the grape.
2. the seed of a berry.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• d?racinus

Descendants

• English: acinus
• Galician: acio
• Irish: aicíneas
• Italian: acino
• Portuguese: ácino

References

• acinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• acinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette