sarcio

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to mend, make good”), whence also sarcina (“bag; burden”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἕρκος (hérkos, “wall, enclosure, defense”), ὅρκος (hórkos), ἑρκάνη (herkánē), ὁρκάνη (horkánē), Hittite [script needed] (šar-nin-k-, “to recompense”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsar.ki.oː/, [ˈs̠ärkioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsar.t͡ʃi.o/, [ˈsärt͡ʃio]

Verb

sarciō (present infinitive sarcīre, perfect active sarsī, supine sartum); fourth conjugation

1. to patch, botch, mend, repair, restore
2. (law) to make amends, recompense

Conjugation

   Conjugation of sarciō (fourth conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	sarciō	sarcīs	sarcit	sarcīmus	sarcītis	sarciunt
	imperfect	sarciēbam	sarciēbās	sarciēbat	sarciēbāmus	sarciēbātis	sarciēbant
	future	sarciam	sarciēs	sarciet	sarciēmus	sarciētis	sarcient
	perfect	sarsī	sarsistī	sarsit	sarsimus	sarsistis	sarsērunt, sarsēre
	pluperfect	sarseram	sarserās	sarserat	sarserāmus	sarserātis	sarserant
	future perfect	sarserō	sarseris	sarserit	sarserimus	sarseritis	sarserint
passive	present	sarcior	sarcīris, sarcīre	sarcītur	sarcīmur	sarcīminī	sarciuntur
	imperfect	sarciēbar	sarciēbāris, sarciēbāre	sarciēbātur	sarciēbāmur	sarciēbāminī	sarciēbantur
	future	sarciar	sarciēris, sarciēre	sarciētur	sarciēmur	sarciēminī	sarcientur
	perfect	sartus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	sartus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	sartus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	sarciam	sarciās	sarciat	sarciāmus	sarciātis	sarciant
	imperfect	sarcīrem	sarcīrēs	sarcīret	sarcīrēmus	sarcīrētis	sarcīrent
	perfect	sarserim	sarserīs	sarserit	sarserīmus	sarserītis	sarserint
	pluperfect	sarsissem	sarsissēs	sarsisset	sarsissēmus	sarsissētis	sarsissent
passive	present	sarciar	sarciāris, sarciāre	sarciātur	sarciāmur	sarciāminī	sarciantur
	imperfect	sarcīrer	sarcīrēris, sarcīrēre	sarcīrētur	sarcīrēmur	sarcīrēminī	sarcīrentur
	perfect	sartus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	sartus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	sarcī	—	—	sarcīte	—
	future	—	sarcītō	sarcītō	—	sarcītōte	sarciuntō
passive	present	—	sarcīre	—	—	sarcīminī	—
	future	—	sarcītor	sarcītor	—	—	sarciuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		sarcīre	sarsisse	sartūrum esse	sarcīrī	sartum esse	sartum īrī
participles		sarciēns	—	sartūrus	—	sartus	sarciendus, sarciundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		sarciendī	sarciendō	sarciendum	sarciendō	sartum	sartū

Derived terms

• exsarciō
• insarciō
• resarciō
• sartor
• sartus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: sarcire
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: sarcir
  • Old French: sarcir, sartir
    • French: sertir
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: sarzì
  • Lombard: sarzì
  • Piedmontese: sarzì
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: sargir, sarzir, surgir
  • Occitan: sarcir
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: surcir, zurcir
  • Portuguese: cerzir
  • Spanish: surcir, zurcir
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sarcia
  • Welsh: seirch

Further reading

• “sarcio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sarcio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sarcio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make good, repair a loss or injury: damnum or detrimentum sarcire (not reparare)
    
• Andrew Breeze, 'Old English Syrce "Coat of Mail": Welsh seirch "armour" ', Notes and Queries, 40.3 [238] (1993), 291-93.