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)

1. leech

Synonyms

• mignatta

Related terms

• sanguisugio

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /san.ɡʷiˈsuː.ɡa/, [s̠äŋɡʷɪˈs̠uːɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /san.ɡwiˈsu.ɡa/, [säŋɡwiˈs̬uːɡä]

Noun

sanguisūga f (genitive sanguisūgae); first declension

1. 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)

2. a vampire

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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: sancusuca
• 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.