saucius

May be from Proto-Indo-European *ksew-, extended from *kes- (“to scratch, itch”). Cognates with novācula, sentis, Ancient Greek ξέω (xéō), ξύω (xúō, “to scrape”), ξαίνω (xaínō), Old English besnyþian.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsau̯.ki.us/, [ˈs̠äu̯kiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsau̯.t͡ʃi.us/, [ˈsäːu̯t͡ʃius]

saucius (feminine saucia, neuter saucium, comparative sauciior, superlative sauciissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. hurt, wounded, injured, stricken, smitten

   Synonyms: sauciātus, vulnerātus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.223–224:

     “Quālēs mūgītūs fūgit cum saucius āram
     taurus et incertam excussit cervīce secūrim.”

     “Just like the bellowing when a wounded bull flees the altar and has shaken off from its neck an ill-aimed axe.”

2. ill, sick

First/second-declension adjective.

• sauciātiō
• saucietas
• sauciō

• “saucius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saucius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• saucius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.