Jump to content

suggillo

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Latin

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From sūgō (I suck, I draw off [liquid] from) +‎ -illō.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

suggillō (present infinitive suggillāre, perfect active suggillāvī, supine suggillātum); first conjugation

  1. (attacking a person’s body) to thrash black-and-blue, to bruise, to contuse
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Seneca the Younger to this entry?)
    1. (Medieval Latin) to strangle, to throttle, to choke, to suffocate
  2. (figuratively, by non-physical attacks):
    1. (attacking a person’s esteem) to hurt someone’s feelings, to insult, to offend greatly, to humiliate, to revile, to affront
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Livy to this entry?)
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Valerius Maximus to this entry?)
    2. (attacking a person’s deeds) to admonish, to castigate, to censure, to chide, to condemn, to rebuke, to reprimand, to reproach, to reprove, to upbraid
  3. (Late Latin, transferred sense, construed with an accusative thing and a dative person) to beat (something) into (someone), to impress (a notion vel sim.) on (someone), to suggest or propose (something) to (someone)
  4. (Medieval Latin) to bar
    • 985, B.E.C. Guérard (ed.), Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres, volume I (1890), part I, book iii, chapter xviii, page 79:
      Ut autem hujus securitatis causa perpetualiter consistat inconvulsa, suggillata pœnitus totius fraudis vel calumpniæ controversia, domno meo obtuli, duci quoque ceterisque in Christo proceribus, corroborandam; placuitque atque convenit tandem in utroque loco uno tenore eademque habitudine conscriptam contineri.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • English: suggill, suggillate

References

[edit]