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Latin
Etymology
From Punic 𐤔𐤐𐤈 (špṭ, “judge”). The term must have been borrowed from Late Punic, which had a shift from /p/ to /f/.
Noun
sūfes m (genitive sūfetis); third declension
- A suffete; one of the chief magistrates in ancient Carthage.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- “sufes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sufes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sufes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sufes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sufes”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “sufes”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press