sucus

See also: suĉus

Latin

Alternative forms

• succus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk-. Cognate with sūgō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.kus/, [ˈs̠uːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.kus/, [ˈsuːkus]

Noun

sūcus m (genitive sūcī); second declension

1. juice
2. sap
3. moisture
4. (figuratively) strength, vitality, rigor, energy, life

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sūcus	sūcī
Genitive	sūcī	sūcōrum
Dative	sūcō	sūcīs
Accusative	sūcum	sūcōs
Ablative	sūcō	sūcīs
Vocative	sūce	sūcī

Derived terms

• exsūcus
• exsūcō
• sūcidus
• sūcidō
• sūcinum
• sūculentus
• sūcōsus
• īnsūcō

 

Descendants

• → Basque: zuku
• Catalan: suc
• French: suc
• Friulian: sûc
• Italian: succo, sugo
• Mozarabic:

  • Arabic script: شّوقّه (šukku)

    Hebrew script: שׁוככו (šukku)

• Portuguese: suco
• Romanian: suc, usuc
• Romansch: suc
• Sicilian: sucu
• Spanish: jugo

References

• “sucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sucus 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)
• sucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.