sucus

See also: suĉus

Latin

Alternative forms

• succus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *soukos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“juice; to suck”), itself possibly borrowed from Proto-Uralic *śuwe (“mouth”). Cognate with sūgō, Welsh sugno (“to suck”), sugnedydd (“pump”), Latvian sùkt (“to suck”), Proto-Slavic *sъsàti (“to suck”), and English suck. Apparently unrelated to Proto-Slavic *sokъ of the same meaning.

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	sūcus	sūcī
genitive	sūcī	sūcōrum
dative	sūcō	sūcīs
accusative	sūcum	sūcōs
ablative	sūcō	sūcīs
vocative	sūce	sūcī

Derived terms

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

 

Descendants

• → Basque: zuku
• Catalan: suc
• Corsican: suchju, sughju
• → Esperanto: suko
• French: suc
• Friulian: sûc
• Galician: xugo
• Italian: succo, sugo
• Piedmontese: sugh
• Portuguese: suco
• Romanian: suc, usuc
• Romansch: suc
• Sicilian: sucu
• Old Spanish: xugo
  • Spanish: jugo
• → Spanish: suco

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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 596