sanguessuga

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === sambexuga, samessuga, samexuga, samexunga === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin sanguisūga (literally “bloodsucker”), from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”). Displaced inherited samessuga, still used dialectally. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -uɡɐ Hyphenation: san‧gues‧su‧ga === Noun === sanguessuga f or (nonstandard) m (plural sanguessugas) leech (aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea) Synonyms: hirudíneo, samessuga ==== Related terms ==== === Noun === sanguessuga m or f by sense (plural sanguessugas) (figurative, derogatory) leech (person who derives profit from others) === References === “sanguessuga”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “sanguessuga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “sanguessuga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “sanguessuga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN