hirudo

See also: Hirudo

Esperanto

Hirudo suĉanta

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hirūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hiˈrudo]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: hi‧ru‧do

Noun

hirudo (accusative singular hirudon, plural hirudoj, accusative plural hirudojn)

1. leech

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Stifter suggests it may be related to Old Irish giritán “periwinkle”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hiˈruː.doː/, [hɪˈruːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈru.do/, [iˈruːd̪o]

Noun

hirūdō f (genitive hirūdinis); third declension

1. A leech.

   Synonym: sanguisūga

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hirūdō	hirūdinēs
genitive	hirūdinis	hirūdinum
dative	hirūdinī	hirūdinibus
accusative	hirūdinem	hirūdinēs
ablative	hirūdine	hirūdinibus
vocative	hirūdō	hirūdinēs

Descendants

• English: hirudin, hirudinoid
• Esperanto: hirudo
• Translingual: Hirudo
• Italian: irudine
• Occitan: iruge
• Portuguese: hirudíneo
• Spanish: hirudíneo

References

• “hirudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hirudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hirudo 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)
• hirudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.