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

Noun

succión f (plural succiones)

1. suction

Derived terms

• succionar

Further reading

• “succión”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983), “succión”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 324