sanguisuga

Borrowed from Latin sanguisūga.

• IPA^(key): /san.ɡwiˈzu.ɡa/, /san.ɡwiˈsu.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Hyphenation: san‧gui‧sù‧ga

sanguisuga f (plural sanguisughe)

1. leech

• mignatta

• sanguisugio

Literally, “a bloodsucker”, from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /san.ɡʷiˈsuː.ɡa/, [s̠äŋɡʷɪˈs̠uːɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /san.ɡwiˈsu.ɡa/, [säŋɡwiˈs̬uːɡä]

sanguisūga f (genitive sanguisūgae); first declension

1. a leech
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.30.15:

     sanguisūgae duae sunt fīliae dīcentēs adfer adfer

     The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

2. a vampire

First-declension noun.

• (leech): hirūdo

• “sanguisuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sanguisuga 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)
• sanguisuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.