salicastrum

Latin

Etymology

From salic- (“willow”) +‎ -astrum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sa.liˈkas.trum/, [s̠älʲɪˈkäs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.liˈkas.trum/, [säliˈkäst̪rum]

Noun

salicastrum n (genitive salicastrī); second declension

1. a kind of wild vine found in willow-thickets

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	salicastrum	salicastra
Genitive	salicastrī	salicastrōrum
Dative	salicastrō	salicastrīs
Accusative	salicastrum	salicastra
Ablative	salicastrō	salicastrīs
Vocative	salicastrum	salicastra

Descendants

• Mozarabic: *šaugaçro
  • → Galician: chougazo, zargazo
  • → Portuguese: sargaço (metathesis of /r/ and loss of /w/)
    • → Catalan: sargàs
    • → English: sargasso
    • → Italian: sargasso
    • → Spanish: sargazo
    • → Translingual: Sargassum

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 315
• Corriente, Federico (2008) “arcazón”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186

Further reading

• “salicastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salicastrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.