sanguisuga
Appearance
See also: Sanguisuga
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin sanguisūga. Cognate with Sicilian sancu-suca.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sanguisuga f (plural sanguisughe)
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ sanguisuga in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “a bloodsucker”, from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [saŋ.ɡʷɪˈsuː.ɡa]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [saŋ.ɡʷiˈs̬uː.ɡa]
Noun
[edit]sanguisūga f (genitive sanguisūgae); first declension
- a leech
- Synonym: hirūdō
- a vampire, an undead being which harms people and is implied to consume blood
- 1610, William di Newburgh, Guillelmi Neubrigensis Angli, ... De rebus Anglicis suis temporis, libri quinque. Nunc primum auctiores 11. capitulis hactenus desideratis, & notis Ioannis Picardi Bellouaci ..., page 650:
- nec terrorem [alt.: territi] iuuenes, quos ira stimulabat, exanimo corpore retulerunt [alt.: vulnus exanimi corpori intulerunt]: ex quo tantus continuò sanguis effluxit, vt intelligeretur sanguisuga fuisse multorum.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | sanguisūga | sanguisūgae |
genitive | sanguisūgae | sanguisūgārum |
dative | sanguisūgae | sanguisūgīs |
accusative | sanguisūgam | sanguisūgās |
ablative | sanguisūgā | sanguisūgīs |
vocative | sanguisūga | sanguisūgae |
Descendants
[edit]- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Sicilian: sancusuca
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: semesuga
- Galician: samesuga, sambesuga
- Portuguese: samessuga, sambessuga, samexuga, sambexuga, semessuga, sumessuga, sumbessuga
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: sanguja, ⇒ sanguijuela
- → Fala: sanguijuela
- Spanish: sanguja, ⇒ sanguijuela
- Old Galician-Portuguese: semesuga
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
- → Italian: sanguisuga
- → Albanian: shushunjë
- → Portuguese: sanguessuga
References
[edit]- “sanguisuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "sanguisuga", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sanguisuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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