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saccos

saccos is the alternative form of sakkos.

Meaning of sakkos

Noun

sakkos (plural sakkoses or sakkoi)

  1. (Eastern Orthodoxy) A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
    • When in 1411 Emperor John VIII Palaeologos married a daughter of Vasilii II, Grand Prince of Muscovy, he sent Moscow a splendid specimen of the liturgical vestment known as a sakkos as a gift for Metropolitan Photios.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 515

Noun capitalized: SACCOs

SACCOs

  1. (plural) plural of SACCO

Forms of saccos

pluralsaccoi

Questions about saccos

What is saccos the alternative form of?
Saccos is the alternative form of sakkos.
What part of speech is saccos?
Saccos is a noun.
What is the plural of saccos?
The plural of saccos is saccoi.

Words near saccos in the dictionary

  1. Saccones
  2. saccopharyngid
  3. saccopharyngids
  4. saccopharyngiform
  5. saccopharyngiforms
  6. saccos
  7. saccular
  8. sacculate
  9. sacculated
  10. sacculation
  11. sacculations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saccos (page history and authors); SACCOs (page history and authors); sakkos (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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