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vac

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

vac (plural vacs)

  1. (informal) A vacation.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 324:
      It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.
  2. (informal) A vacuum cleaner.
  3. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

Derived terms

  • (vacuum cleaner) minivac

Verb

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vacking, simple past and past participle vacked)

  1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
    • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)
      I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

Anagrams

  • ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

vac

  1. cow

References

  • Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish vatsa.

Noun

vac

  1. belly

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sac

Translingual

Etymology

From the three first letters of one of the English names for the language, viz. Sac and Fox.

Proper noun

sac

  1. the ISO 639-3 code for the Fox language

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk
  • Homophone: sack

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of sack.

Noun

sac (plural sacs)

  1. A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
Derived terms
  • saccate
  • sacless
  • vocal sac

Etymology 2

Clipping of sacrifice.

Verb

sac (third-person singular simple present sacs, present participle sacking or saccing, simple past and past participle sacked or sacced)

  1. (transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice.
    Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.
    I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.

Noun

sac (plural sacs)

  1. (transitive, informal, games) A sacrifice.
    Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.

Etymology 3

See sake, soc.

Noun

sac

  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)

Anagrams

  • A/Cs, ACS, ACs, ASC, CAS, CSA, Cas, Cas., SCA, a/cs, acs, cas, cas'

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • sacu

Etymology

From Latin saccus. Compare Romanian sac.

Noun

sac m (plural sats) or n (plural sacuri)

  1. sack, bag

Derived terms

  • nsac

Related terms

  • sãculj

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *si??.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [s?d??], [s?d?z]

Noun

sac (definite accusative sac?, plural saclar)

  1. an iron disk on which thin bread cakes are baked

Declension


Catalan

Etymology

From Latin saccus.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?sak/

Noun

sac m (plural sacs)

  1. sack, bag
  2. sackcloth, smock (rough garment of coarse cloth)
  3. sack, pillage
  4. (obsolete) rectum

Derived terms

  • sac de cops
  • sac de dormir
  • sac de gemecs
  • saca

Related terms

  • saquejar

Further reading

  • “sac” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sak/
  • Rhymes: -ak

Etymology 1

From Old French sac, from Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sákkos, sack, bag; sackcloth), ultimately from Semitic.

Noun

sac m (plural sacs)

  1. bag, sack
  2. (dated slang) ten French francs
    Coordinate term: brique

Derived terms

Related terms
  • saccule
  • sacoche
Descendants
  • Haitian Creole: sak
  • ? English: sac
  • ? Moroccan Arabic: ????
  • ? Persian: ???? (sâk)

Etymology 2

Old Norse saka (compare English ransack).

Noun

sac m (plural sacs)

  1. plunder, loot

See also

  • saccage
  • saccager
  • pillage
  • mettre à sac

Further reading

  • “sac” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • ASC, cas

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin saccus.

Noun

sac m (plural sacs)

  1. sack, bag

Related terms

  • sachere
  • sacut

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sac, from late Proto-Germanic *sakkuz, borrowed from Latin saccus.

Noun

sac m

  1. sack

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: zak
    • Afrikaans: sak
    • ? Indonesian: sak
    • ? Indonesian: saku
  • Limburgish: zak

Further reading

  • “sac”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “sac”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (sac, sheet iron), compare Turkish sac (sheet metal, baking plate).

Noun

sac ?

  1. baking pan

Old French

Etymology

From Latin saccus.

Noun

sac m (oblique plural sas, nominative singular sas, nominative plural sac)

  1. bag; sack

Synonyms

  • poque

Descendants

  • French: sac
    • Haitian Creole: sak
    • ? English: sac
    • ? Moroccan Arabic: ????
    • ? Persian: ???? (sâk)

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sákkos, sack, bag; sackcloth), ultimately of Semitic origin.

Noun

sac m (plural saci)

  1. sack, bag

Declension

Derived terms

  • s?car
  • sac de dormit
  • s?cule?

Related terms

  • s?cui

See also

  • pung?

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *?aac-. Compare Afar saga.

Noun

sac m

  1. cow

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (sac, sheet iron), from Proto-Turkic *si?? (white copper, tin, pan). Cognate with Chuvash ????? (š?v??, tin, tin-plate), Karakhanid ????? (s??, pan).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s?d??/

Noun

sac (definite accusative sac?, plural saclar)

  1. a tin metal baking plate
  2. sheet metal
  3. tin, tin plate

Declension

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