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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sowḱ-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsuː.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsuː.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sūcus''' ''m'' (genitive sūcī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''succus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Apuleius has a fourth-declension genitive singular ''sūcūs'' and genitive plural ''sūcuum''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*souko-|t=juice]], [[inh|ine-pro|*sowḱ-o-|t=juice]] (or ⟨*sewḱ-o-⟩).^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The root “to suck” appears as ⟨*suḱ-⟩ in [[cy|sugno|t=to suck]] and [[ru|сосать|tr=sosátʹ|t=to suck]], and as ⟨*sug-⟩ in [[ang|sūgan|t=to suck]] and in [[m|la|sūgō|t=to suck]], with which the OLD and Lewis and Short connect it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan gives Plautus as its first author,^(de Vaan 2008) whose snails in the ''Captivi'' “live on their own juice if no dew falls”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the liquid of a plant, fruit or animal substance, juice, as in Plautus, and also an animal secretion, as Cicero's juice from food that passes to the liver, Lucretius uses it of the juice that gives a thing its flavour.^(OLD 2012) Juices served as medicines, poisons and magic drugs, as Tibullus' “I gave juices and herbs to take away the bruises”, as dyes and as perfumes.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It is the vital sap of plants, as Varro's seeds sown before the sap dries, and of people and animals, as Terence's girl with a body “firm and full of sap”.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is vitality, especially of style, as Cicero's orators who kept the “sap” of Pericles.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of snails living on their juice.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of bodily vigour.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of sap.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the vigour of style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|juice|alt=Juice]], liquid; moisture; flavour.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A juice used as medicine, poison, dye or perfume.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|sap|alt=Sap]], vital fluid; bodily vigour.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Vitality, [[m|en|vigour]] (especially of style).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsūcō]]

+ * [[exsūcus]]

+ * [[sūcidus]]

+ * [[sūcinum]]

+ * [[sūcōsus]]

+ * [[sūculentus]]

+ * [[īnsūcō]]

+ * [[sūcidō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sūgō]]

+ * [[liquor]]

+ * [[latex]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}