Translation
juice; sap
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Word origin
From Latin sucus, juice or sap, from sugere, to suck. The same root gives English succulent, a plant full of sucus, and suction.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- sucus
- English cognates
- succulent, suction
Examples
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The child drank a glass of juice.
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That orange has a lot of juice in it.
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In spring the sap rises in the trees.
One root, two English words. is the juice in a glass and the sap in a tree, and Esperanto sees no reason to split them: both are the liquid that comes out of a living thing when you press it.
At a table you name it after the fruit, and the compound is written solid: oranĝsuko orange juice, pomsuko apple juice, tomatsuko. If the compound feels heavy you can say instead, and both are correct. The adjective means juicy, and it is the ordinary word for a good peach.
Sukoplena - full of juice - turns up in figurative writing the way English says a "juicy" story, and elsuki is to squeeze the juice out of something. Watch the neighbours in the dictionary: (sugar) and (to succeed) start with the same three letters and share nothing with this root.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 21, lesson 2: suko, ĉelo, mallaborema and 5 more words.