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Latin
Etymology
May be from Proto-Indo-European *ksew-, extended from *kes- (“to scratch, itch”). Cognates with novācula, sentis, Ancient Greek ξέω (xéō), ξύω (xúō, “to scrape”), ξαίνω (xaínō), Old English besnyþian.
Pronunciation
Adjective
saucius (feminine saucia, neuter saucium, comparative sauciior, superlative sauciissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- hurt, wounded, injured, stricken, smitten
- Synonyms: sauciātus, vulnerātus
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.223–224:
- “Quālēs mūgītūs fūgit cum saucius āram
taurus et incertam excussit cervīce secūrim.”- “Just like the bellowing when a wounded bull flees the altar and has shaken off from its neck an ill-aimed axe.”
- ill, sick
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “saucius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “saucius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saucius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.