suctus

Latin

Etymology 1

sūgō +‎ -tus

Noun

sūctus m (genitive sūctūs); fourth declension

1. sucking, an act of sucking

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sūctus	sūctūs
genitive	sūctūs	sūctuum
dative	sūctuī	sūctibus
accusative	sūctum	sūctūs
ablative	sūctū	sūctibus
vocative	sūctus	sūctūs

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of sūgō (“suck”).

Participle

sūctus (feminine sūcta, neuter sūctum); first/second-declension participle

1. sucked, having been sucked.
2. taken in, having been taken in.
3. exhausted, having been exhausted.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sūctus	sūcta	sūctum		sūctī	sūctae	sūcta
genitive	sūctī	sūctae	sūctī		sūctōrum	sūctārum	sūctōrum
dative	sūctō	sūctae	sūctō		sūctīs
accusative	sūctum	sūctam	sūctum		sūctōs	sūctās	sūcta
ablative	sūctō	sūctā	sūctō		sūctīs
vocative	sūcte	sūcta	sūctum		sūctī	sūctae	sūcta

Descendants

• Aromanian: suptu
• Dalmatian: sot
• → Portuguese: sucto
• Romanian: supt
• Sardinian: assuttu, suttu

References

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