suffundo
Latin
Alternative forms
- subfundō
Etymology
From sub- (“under”) + fundō (“to pour”), from nasalized form of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- "to pour".[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sʊfˈfʊn.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sufˈfun̪.d̪o]
Verb
suffundō (present infinitive suffundere, perfect active suffūdī, supine suffūsum); third conjugation
Conjugation
Conjugation of suffundō (third conjugation)
Descendants
- Italian: soffondere, suffondere (Latinized)
- → English: suffuse
References
- “suffundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suffundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suffundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “suffuse”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.