sufes

Latin

Alternative forms

• suffes

Etymology

Borrowed from Punic 𐤔𐤐𐤈 (špṭ, “judge”). The term must have been borrowed from Late Punic, which had a shift from /p/ to /f/.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.fɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.fes]

Noun

sūfes m (genitive sūfetis); 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