Noun: semesuga
Gender:
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | semesuga |
| Singular f | semesuga; semesuga |
| Plural m | semesugas |
| Plural f | semesugas |
Sample Sentences
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Para esto ual reer o lugar jnchado et çercallo de semesugas para liurar ende o sange que y ha para seyr fora (For this is valid to shave the swollen place and then to encircle it with leeches, so freeing the blood that is there, letting it go out) [1420, Álvaro Eans das Eiras, transl., Tratado de Albeitaria, translation of De Medicina Equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 135:]
Etymology
Inherited from Latin sanguisūga, from sanguī̆s + sūgō.
Verbs referencing "semesuga"
Galician Nouns
samesuga.
Translations