Noun: sangusuela
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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[…] ſi la meten en la boca al que a ſanguſuelas en la garganta tira gelas todas aſſi como la aymante tira el fierro. ([…] if they put it in the mouth of one who has leeches in his throat, it attracts them all just like a magnet attracts iron.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 25v:]
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Et fallan la ſiempre en forma de redoma ⁊ parece dentro en ella figura de ſanguſuela. ⁊ ſi la quebrantan en cada pedaço fallã otro tal. (And they always find it shaped like a vase, and inside it seems to have what looks like a leech, and if they break it, in each piece they find the same.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 56r.:]
Nouns inflected like sangusuela
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin sanguisūga (“leech”) + -uela (diminutive). See: Latin Nouns '
sanguisūga'.
Verbs referencing "sangusuela"
Spanish Nouns
sanguijuela.
Translations