sanguisuga

Italian

Etymology

From Latin sanguisūga.

Noun

sanguisuga f (plural sanguisughe)

1. leech

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Latin

Etymology

Literally, "a bloodsucker", from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /san.ɡʷiˈsuː.ɡa/, [saŋ.ɡᶣɪˈsuː.ɡa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /san.ɡwiˈsu.ɡa/, [saŋ.ɡwiˈsuː.ɡa]

Noun

sanguisūga f (genitive sanguisūgae); first declension

1. a leech
2. a vampire

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sanguisūga	sanguisūgae
genitive	sanguisūgae	sanguisūgārum
dative	sanguisūgae	sanguisūgīs
accusative	sanguisūgam	sanguisūgās
ablative	sanguisūgā	sanguisūgīs
vocative	sanguisūga	sanguisūgae

Synonyms

• (leech): hirūdo

Descendants

• Albanian: shushunjë
• Dalmatian: sansoike
• French: sangsue
• Friulian: sansuie, sansuje

• Italian: sanguisuga
• Portuguese: sanguessuga
• Sardinian: sambesuca, sambesue
• Spanish: sanguja, sanguijuela

References

• sanguisuga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “sanguisuga”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “sanguisuga” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)