sanguisuga
See also: Sanguisuga
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sanguisūga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /san.ɡwiˈzu.ɡa/, /san.ɡwiˈsu.ɡa/
- Rhymes: -uɡa
- Hyphenation: san‧gui‧sù‧ga
Noun
sanguisuga f (plural sanguisughe)
- leech
Synonyms
- mignatta
Related terms
- sanguisugio
Latin
Etymology
Literally, “a bloodsucker”, from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /san.ɡʷiˈsuː.ɡa/, [s̠äŋɡʷɪˈs̠uːɡä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /san.ɡwiˈsu.ɡa/, [säŋɡwiˈs̬uːɡä]
Noun
sanguisūga f (genitive sanguisūgae); first declension
- a leech
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs 30:15:
- sanguisūgae duae sunt fīliae dīcentēs adfer adfer
- The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
- sanguisūgae duae sunt fīliae dīcentēs adfer adfer
- a vampire
Declension
First-declension noun.
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
- Dalmatian:
- sansoike
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: sanguisuga
- Sicilian: sancisuca
- Padanian:
- Friulian: sansuie, sansuje
- Piedmontese: sansùa, sansuva
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: sang-sua, sang-suva (Valdôtain)
- French: sangsue
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: sansuga
- Occitan: sangsuga
- Nord-Occitan: sangsuja
- Vivaro-Alpine: sangsua
- Ibero-Romance:
- Galician: samesuga, sambesuga
- Portuguese: sanguessuga
- Spanish: sanguja ⇒ sanguijuela
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: sambesuca, sambesue
- Borrowings:
- → Albanian: shushunjë}
References
- “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