Latin

Alternative forms

• suggilō
• sūgillō

Verb

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

(transitive)

1. (attacking a person’s body) I thrash black-and-blue, I bruise, I 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) I strangle, I throttle, I choke, I suffocate
2. (figuratively, by non-physical attacks):
   1. (attacking a person’s esteem) I hurt someone’s feelings, I insult, I offend greatly, I humiliate, I revile, I 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) I admonish, I castigate, I censure, I chide, I condemn, I rebuke, I reprimand, I reproach, I reprove, I upbraid
3. (Late Latin, transferred sense, construed with an accusative thing and a dative person) I beat (something) into (someone), I impress (a notion vel sim.) on (someone), I suggest or propose (something) to (someone)
4. (Medieval Latin) I 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.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: suggill, suggillate

References

• sūgillo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• SUGGILLARE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “suggillo (sūgil-)”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,510/2.
• “suggillō (-ilō)” on page 1,863/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “suggillare” on page 1,003/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)