sufes

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Punic 𐀔𐀐𐀈 (Å¡pá¹­, “judge”). The term must have been borrowed from Late Punic, which had a shift from /p/ to /f/.

Noun

sÅ«fes m (genitive sÅ«fetis); third declension

  1. A suffete; one of the chief magistrates in ancient Carthage.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative sūfes sūfetēs
genitive sūfetis sūfetium
dative sūfetī sūfetibus
accusative sūfetem sūfetēs
sūfetīs
ablative sūfete sūfetibus
vocative sūfes sūfetēs

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