Succinum

succinum n (genitive succinī); second declension
Alternative form of sūcinum

sūcinum n (genitive sūcinī); second declension

1. amber

sucus

Etymology
See sugere

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Etymology 1
From Latin sūgere, present active infinitive of sūgō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sug-, *suk-.

Etymology 2
Forms of the above word

Silpnokai. 

Juk sūcinum, succinum - gintaras.

 

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Albert the Great (1193-1280), a Dominican and a philosopher, identifies amber as the first among the six most effective medicines; succinum, ocastoreum, mors, camphor, tartarus, and aurum. 

The Prussian Priest Matthaus Praetorius recorded that in 1680, "During the plague not a single amberman from Gdansk, Klaipeda, Konigsberg or Liepaja died of the disease"