sucio

See also: Sucio

Asturian

Adjective

sucio

1. neuter of suciu

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish sucio.

Adjective

sucio

1. dirty

Galician

Alternative forms

• suxo

Etymology

From an older suçio, from Latin succidus, variant of sūcidus (“juicy; oily, greasy”). Compare Portuguese sujo and Spanish sucio.

Adjective

sucio (feminine sucia, masculine plural sucios, feminine plural sucias)

1. dirty, unclean

   Antonym: limpo

2. impure

   Antonym: puro

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 47:

     os demoes que son spiritus maaos et suçios

     the demons, which are evil and impure spirits

Related terms

• sucidade

References

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

Further reading

• “sucio” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish suzio, from Latin sūcidus (“juicy; oily, greasy”), from sūcus (“juice, sap”) whence English succinite (“Baltic amber”). Compare Ladino suzio. For the sound change of the ending, compare limpio from Latin limpidus, and Old Spanish pudio from pūtidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈsuθjo/ [ˈsu.θjo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsusjo/ [ˈsu.sjo]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -uθjo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -usjo
• Syllabification: su‧cio

Adjective

sucio (feminine sucia, masculine plural sucios, feminine plural sucias)

1. dirty, filthy

   Synonym: cerdo

   Antonym: limpio

2. sinful, tainted

   Synonyms: pecaminoso, contaminado

3. obscene, vulgar

   Synonyms: obsceno, vulgar

Derived terms

• guerra sucia
• suciamente
• sucísimo
• trapos sucios

 

Related terms

• suciedad

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: sucio

Adverb

sucio

1. dirty (in a dirty manner)

   Háblame sucio, papazote.

   Talk dirty to me, daddy.

Further reading

• “sucio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014