Masculine
sanguessuga
Meaning
leech (aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea)
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
sangsue
sanguisuga
sanguijuela
Blutegel
βδέλλα
sangonera
bloedzuiger
sangsuga
hirudo
العلقياتFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌsɐ̃.ɡiˈsu.ɡɐ/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sanguisūga (literally “bloodsucker”), from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”). Displaced inherited samessuga, still used dialectally in Portugal.
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