succión
See also: succion
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sūctiō, attested since Late Latin and derived from sūgō (“I suck”). According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested in 1615, in a text by the medical writer Juan Sorapán de Rieros.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /suɡˈθjon/ [suɣ̞ˈθjõn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /suɡˈsjon/ [suɣ̞ˈsjõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: suc‧ción
Noun
succión f (plural succiones)
- suction
Derived terms
- succionar
Further reading
- “succión”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983), “succión”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 324