sanguĭsūga — Lewis & Short
sanguĭsūga, ae, f.sanguis-sugo,
I a blood-sucker, leech (called also hirudo), Cels. 5, 27, 16; Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 29; 32, 10, 42, § 123; Vulg. Prov. 30, 15.
The corpus record — Latin
sanguisuga
sanguisuga · f
a blood-sucker
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
- De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- sanguisugis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.32.p39
- sanguisugas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.10.p3
- sanguisuga Celsus, De Medicina 5.27.p17
- sanguisugas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.4.p5
- sanguisugas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.10.p5
- sanguisugam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.10
6 of 10 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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