S Sabbatum, sabbatinus, dies = Saturday sacellanus = chaplain sacer = sacred sacerdos (sacerdotis) = priest sacramentis totiis munitiis = (being) fortified by all the last rites sacramentum = sacrament, ordinance, rite sacramentus moribundorum = death sacrament sacro fonte baptismi = in the sacred font of baptism saeculum = a generation, century, age, eternity, world saepe = often salarium = salary sanctus = holy, sacred, a saint sanus = healthy sartor, sartorius, sartorissa = tailor, man repairing clothes satis = enough saturni, dies = Saturday scabinus = judge, lay assessor schola = school scorbutus = scurvy scorifex (scorificis) = tanner scorta = unmarried mother, whore scriba = clerk, scribe, court clerk, secretary scribo = I write scrinarius = carpenter, cabinet maker scripsit = he/she wrote scriptum = written scrofulosis = specific debility at children secundus = second sed = but sedecim = sixteen sellarius = saddler semel = once, a single time semi = half semper = always senectus = old age senex (senicis) = old man senior = older, elder senium = old age sepelivi = I buried septagenarius = a person in his seventies septem = seven septembris = of September septemdecim = seventeen septigenti = seven hundred septimana = week septimus = seventh septimus decimus = seventeenth septingentesimus = seven hundredth septuagesimus = seventieth septuaginta = seventy sepulti, sepultus = burial sepultorum, liber = burial register sepultus (-a) est = he/she was buried sequens (sequentis) = following serdo (serdonis) = tanner servilis, servilius = domestic, servant, slave servter = guard servus = servant sescentesimus = six hundredth sescenti = six hundred seu = or sex = six sexagesimus = sixtieth sexaginta = sixty sextus = sixth sextus decimus = sixteenth sexus = gender (male \ female ), sex sexus fem. = female sexus masc. = male si = if sic = thus, so, yes sigillum = seal signum = sign, mark signum fecit = he/she made a mark, signed silva = woods, forest sine = without sinister = left sinus = bosom, breast sive = or smigator = soap maker socer (socris) = father-in-law socius = apprentice, comrade, associate socrinus = brother-in-law socrus = mother-in-law sodalis = member of an association, corporation sol (solis) = the sun solemnicationis = marriage solis, dies = Sunday solutus = unmarried, single sororenius / soror = "good", blood sister sororius = brother-in-law (sister's husband) spanus / spanus dominalis = the overseer of manorial farm of the village speculatius = old title of a bishop; it's also a Christmas (St. Nicholas Day) cookie. Their place of origin is the Netherlands, Belgium and the German Rheinland. The name itself refers to the saint and the "images" on the cookies show scenes from his legend. spirituales, parentes = godparents sponsa = bride, wife, spouse, betrothed sponsalia = marriage banns sponsalis = betrothed sponsati, sponsatus = marriage sponsor = godparent sponsus = husband, groom, spouse, betrothed sponsa = groom, bride spurius = illegitimate statim = immediately status = condition, (marital) status; [usage: coeleb.(s) = single \ viduus = widowed] stemma = pedigree stinarius = plowman stirps = origin, source stuprata = pregnant (out of wedlock) stuprator = father of an illegitimate child sub = under, beneath, below subscripsit = he/she undersigned subscriptus = undersigned subsequentis = following, subsequent subsignatum = marked or signed below subsignavit = he/she marked (signed) below sum = I am sunt = they are superior = upper superstes = surviving, still living supra = before, above, beyond supradictum = above written surdus = deaf susceptor = godparent (male) susceptores = godparents susceptorix = godparent (female) sutor = shoemaker, cobbler suus = his/her/its own, their own Svitia = Switzerland synergus = apprentice DISEASES scarlatina = scarlet fever. A contagious febrile disease, caused by infection with the bacteria group characterized by red rash. A beta-hemolytic streptococci (which elaborate a toxin with an affinity for red blood cells) and characterized by a scarlet eruption, tonsillitis, and pharyngitis sciatica = rheumatism in the hips scirrhus = cancerous tumors scrofulosis = primary tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands, especially those in the neck. A disease of children and young adults, it represents a direct extension of tuberculosis into the skin from underlying lymph nodes. It evolves into cold abscesses, multiple skin ulcers, and draining sinus tracts. Synonym: king's evil. scrumpox = skin disease, impetigo. senilis = weak with age; Latin suffix meaning "of the elderly" septicemia = blood poisoning; a condition of local or generalized invasion of the body by disease siriasis = inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure spasmus = cramps; sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, like a convulsion stomatitis = inflammation of the mouth struma = scrofulous tumor