sucar

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Catalan

Etymology

From suc (juice). First attested in 1653.

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sucar (first-person singular present suco, first-person singular preterite suquí, past participle sucat)

  1. to immerse a body into a liquid in order to make it absorbe the fluid, to soak, to dip
    Sucar galetes al cafèTo dip biscuits in coffee
  2. (figuratively) to profit unfairly or illegally
    Quan quelcom sembla ésser un bon negoci, tothom procura sucar-hi
    When something seems to be a good deal, everybody tries to profit from it
  3. (figuratively, vulgar, slang) to have sex

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Galician

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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin sulcare (to furrow, plough, turn up). Cognate with Portuguese sulcar and Spanish surcar.

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sucar (first-person singular present suco, first-person singular preterite suquei, past participle sucado)

  1. (agriculture) to furrow
    Synonym: derregar

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References

  • sucar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • sucar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • sucar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • sucar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
  • sucar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • sucar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
  • sucar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Occitan

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Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sucāre, from Latin sugere, present active infinitive of sugō, from Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-.

Verb

sucar

  1. to suck

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