suggillo

• suggilō
• sūgillō

From sūgō (“to suck; to draw off [liquid] from”) + -illō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊɡˈɡɪl.loː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sudˈd͡ʒil.lo]

suggillō (present infinitive suggillāre, perfect active suggillāvī, supine suggillātum); first conjugation

1. (attacking a person’s body) to thrash black-and-blue, to bruise, to contuse

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium XIII.2:

     Non potest athleta magnos spiritus ad certamen afferre qui numquam suggillatus est

     An athlete who has never been bruised is not able to bring great spirit to a competition

   1. (Medieval Latin) to strangle, to throttle, to choke, to suffocate
2. (figuratively, by non-physical attacks):
   1. (attacking a person’s esteem) to hurt someone’s feelings, to insult, to offend greatly, to humiliate, to revile, to affront

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Livy to this entry?)

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Valerius Maximus to this entry?)

   2. (attacking a person’s deeds) to admonish, to castigate, to censure, to chide, to condemn, to rebuke, to reprimand, to reproach, to reprove, to upbraid
3. (Late Latin, transferred sense, construed with an accusative thing and a dative person) to beat (something) into (someone), to impress (a notion vel sim.) on (someone), to suggest or propose (something) to (someone)
4. (Medieval Latin) to bar
   • 985, B.E.C. Guérard (ed.), Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres, volume I (1890), part I, book iii, chapter xviii, page 79:

     Ut autem hujus securitatis causa perpetualiter consistat inconvulsa, suggillata pœnitus totius fraudis vel calumpniæ controversia, domno meo obtuli, duci quoque ceterisque in Christo proceribus, corroborandam; placuitque atque convenit tandem in utroque loco uno tenore eademque habitudine conscriptam contineri.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• English: suggill

• “sūgillo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "SUGGILLARE", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “suggillo (sūgil-)”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,510/2.
• “suggillō (-ilō)” on page 1,863/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “suggillare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,003/2