# suidian
## English
### Etymology

From Latin sūs (“pig”) +‎ -idian.

### Noun

suidian (plural suidians)
* Synonym of suid.
** 1880, “Herbivora”, in Library of Universal Knowledge. A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and London Edition of Chambers’s Encyclopædia, with Copious Additions by American Editors. […], volume VII, New York, N.Y.: American Book Exchange, […], page 474:If [Georges] Cuvier’s orders are placed in one, then the herbivora will contain the suborders proboscidians (elephants), tapiridians, having long noses, but not prehensile or only very slightly so, as in the rhinoceros and tapir; the suidians, having long but not at all prehensile snouts, as the hog and the hippopotamus; […]
** 1982, [Paolo Arduini], [Giorgio Teruzzi], “The Past in the Earth”, in Prehistoric Atlas: An Illustrated Guide to the Origins of Life on Earth, Enderby, Leics.: Blitz Editions, published 1994 June, →ISBN, page 20, column 2:Abundant remains of continental vertebrates, such as elephants, rhinoceros, hippopotami and suidians (Pleistocene).
** 2014, Cristian A. Alvarez Rojas, Aaron R. Jex, Robin B. Gasser, Jean-Pierre Y. Scheerlinck, “Techniques for the Diagnosis of Fasciola Infections in Animals: Room for Improvement”, in D[avid] Rollinson, J[ohn] R[ussell] Stothard, editors, Advances in Parasitology, volume 85, Amsterdam: Academic Press, →ISBN, section 2 (A Brief Background on Fascioliasis and the Biology of Fasciola Species), page 67:Fasciola spp. are known to infect a wide variety of mammals (definitive hosts), including ruminants, suidians, primates, elephants, hippopotami, lagomorphs and rodents (Mas-Coma et al., 2009; Menard et al., 2000), some being more permissive than others.

### Adjective

suidian (comparative more suidian, superlative most suidian)
* Synonym of suid.
** 1948, J[ames] C[alvin] Oslin, Benbenjrox, San Antonio, Tex.: The Naylor Company, →OCLC, page 95:The melon would strike the porker in the ribs or on the head, producing various suidian squeals of pain and frustration.
** 1999, B[urzine] W[aghmar], “New publications on Iran: The Personalities of Mithra in Archaeology and Literature”, in Circle of Inner Asian Art Newsletter, number 10, London: Circle of Inner Asian Art, SOAS, →ISSN, page 39:In a suidian incarnation (S[ans]k[rit] Varāha), Viṣnu rushes to rescue the earth from demons (Varāha Purāna I, 114.5-13; cf. Yt. 10.70 where a sharp-tusked Vereθragna rushes before Mithra too).
** 2005, Neil Adkin, “A Door Like a Pig? (Juvenal 7, 42)”, in Jacobus Pigoń, editor, Eos: Commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum, volume XCII, number 1, Wrocław, Kraków, Warszawa: Polskie Towarzystwo Filologiczne – Ośrodek Badań nad Tradycją Antyczną UW, →ISSN, pages 137–138:Implicit evidence that stridor was not in fact regarded as the noise of a pig is provided by Cicero (Tusc. V 116: “ne stridorem quidem serrae […] aut grunditum […] suis [scil. audiunt surdi]”), where the stridor of a saw is explicitly distinguished from the grunditus of a pig: had stridor been considered a typically suidian noise, Cicero would simply have written “ne stridorem quidem serrae aut suis”.

### References

* ↑ “suidian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.