succión

See also: succion

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sūctiōnem, attested since Late Latin and derived from sūgō (“to suck”). According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested in 1615, in a text by the medical writer Juan Sorapán de Rieros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /suɡˈθjon/ [suɣ̞ˈθjõn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /suɡˈsjon/ [suɣ̞ˈsjõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: suc‧ción

Noun

succión f (plural succiones)

1. suction

Derived terms

• succionar

 

Further reading

• “succión”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983) “succión”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 324