sanguessuga

Betekenis (Engels)

leech (aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea)

Sinonieme

parasita

Hirudinea

hirudina

Vertalings

sangsue

leech

sanguisuga

sanguijuela

Blutegel

βδέλλα

sangonera

bloedzuiger

mignatta

Egel

bloodsucker

parasite

medicinal leech

parassita

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˌsɐ̃.ɡiˈsu.ɡɐ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Learned borrowing from Latin sanguisūga (literally “bloodsucker”), from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”). Displaced inherited samessuga, still used dialectally in Portugal.