sucidus

Latin

Alternative forms

• succidus

Etymology

From sūcus (“juice, sap”) +‎ -idus (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.ki.dus/, [ˈs̠uːkɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.t͡ʃi.dus/, [ˈsuːt͡ʃid̪us]

Adjective

sūcidus (feminine sūcida, neuter sūcidum); first/second-declension adjective

1. juicy, sappy, full of sap
2. fresh, plump
3. oily, greasy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sūcidus	sūcida	sūcidum		sūcidī	sūcidae	sūcida
genitive	sūcidī	sūcidae	sūcidī		sūcidōrum	sūcidārum	sūcidōrum
dative	sūcidō	sūcidae	sūcidō		sūcidīs
accusative	sūcidum	sūcidam	sūcidum		sūcidōs	sūcidās	sūcida
ablative	sūcidō	sūcidā	sūcidō		sūcidīs
vocative	sūcide	sūcida	sūcidum		sūcidī	sūcidae	sūcida

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: sucido, sudicio
  • Sicilian: zozzu, zuzzu
• North-Italian:
  • Friulian: soç
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: sutze, sútzeu
    • ⇒ Catalan: sutja de llana, surja de llana
  • Old Occitan: sotz
    • →? Italian: sozzo
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: suxo
  • Portuguese: sujo
    • Kabuverdianu: suja
  • Old Spanish: suzio
    • Spanish: sucio
    • Ladino: suzio
    • Papiamentu: sushi
• Borrowings:
  • Middle English: lana succida

References

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