A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Sus, gen.sg. suis (s.m/f.III), acc. sg. suem, dat. sg. sui, abl.sg. sue, nom. & acc. pl. sues, gen. pl. suum, dat. & acc. pl. suibus: a sow, swine, pig, hog; syn. Gk. hys, gen. sg. hyos (s.m. or f. II), q.v.

- Omnia Genera & species naturalia sunt. Non enim licet conjungere sub eodem genere Equum & Suem: licet ambae species monungulae essent; nec Capreolum, Rangiferum & Alcen genere distinguere, licet cornuum figura differant (Linn.), all the species and genera are [natural]. Certainly it is not allowed to unite the Horse and the Hog under the same genus: although both species may have been monungulate [i.e. possessing a single hoof]; nor [is it permitted] to separate by a genus the Roebuck, Reindeer [= Caribou], and Elk , although they may differ by the shape of the horns.

Chlamydia suis, a bacterium affecting only swine; Streptococcus suis, a bacterium causing swine influenza; Ascaris suum [gen.pl. ‘of swine’ an intestinal worm that infects pigs.

Suculus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. suculo: a little boar.

hy-, hyo-: in Gk. comp. swine-, pig-, boar-, sow- [> Gk. hys, gen. sg. hyos (s.m. or f. II): in Greek, a swine, pig, boar or sow; Lat. sus, gen. sg. suis (s.n.III)].

Hyoscyamus L. Henbane, Hogbean > Gk. hyos, of a hog, and cyamos, bean 'because poisonous to swine; likewise to humans' Fernald 1950 (Solanaceae).