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sugo
sugo
See also: súgó
Cebuano
Noun
sugo
Verb
sugo
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
From Latin sūcum, accusative singular of sūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-. Cognate to English succulent via Latin. Doublet of succo.
Noun
sugo m (plural sughi)
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-, whence also English suck.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsuː.ɡoː/
Verb
sūgō (present infinitive sūgere, perfect active suxī, supine suctum); third conjugation
- I suck
- c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 2.8
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Molli enim et rara potestate cum sint, exsiccant sugendo e materia sucum
- Since the stones used are soft and porous, they are apt to suck the moisture out of the mortar and so to dry it up.
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Molli enim et rara potestate cum sint, exsiccant sugendo e materia sucum
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- I take in
- I exhaust
- 116 - 27 BCE — Varro, Rerum Rusticarum, 1:43
- id est quae minus sugunt terram.
- I mean by that crops which are less exhausting to the land.
- id est quae minus sugunt terram.
- 116 - 27 BCE — Varro, Rerum Rusticarum, 1:43
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References
- sugo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sugo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sugo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
- to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)