sucus

See also: suĉus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *soukos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk-. Cognate with sūgō. Apparently unrelated to Proto-Slavic *sokъ of the same meaning.

Pronunciation

Noun

sūcus m (genitive sūcī); second declension

  1. juice
  2. sap
  3. moisture
  4. (figuratively) strength, vitality, rigor, energy, life

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sūcus sūcī
Genitive sūcī sūcōrum
Dative sūcō sūcīs
Accusative sūcum sūcōs
Ablative sūcō sūcīs
Vocative sūce sūcī

Derived terms

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