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English synonyms: knapsack, rucksack, backpack, back pack, haversack, packsack Synonyms:, A. The baseball slang sense of "a base" is attested from 1913. With Reverso you can find the English translation, definition or synonym for knapsack and thousands of other words. A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder.

In English, the meaning "a sack or sack material used as an article of clothing" as a token of penitence or mourning is from c. The wide spread of this word for "a bag" probably is due to the incident in the Biblical story of Joseph in which a sack of corn figures (Genesis xliv). "large oblong bag," Middle English sak, from Old English sacc (West Saxon), sec (Mercian), sæc (Old Kentish) "large cloth bag," also "sackcloth," from Proto-Germanic *sakkiz (source also of Middle Dutch sak, Old High German sac, Old Norse sekkr, but Gothic sakkus probably is directly from Greek), an early borrowing from Latin saccus (also source of Old French sac, Spanish saco, Italian sacco), from Greek sakkos "bag (made of goat hair) sieve burlap, large burlap cloak," which is from Semitic (compare Hebrew, Phoenician saq "sack, cloth of hair, bag, mourning-dress").