lentisco

Attested since 1409. Learned borrowing from Latin lentīscus.

• IPA^(key): [lenˈtiskʊ]

lentisco m (plural lentiscos)

1. mastic (Pistacia lentiscus)

   Synonyms: aroeira, laderno

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lentisco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lentisco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lentisco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• lentischio (uncommon)

Borrowed from Latin lentīscus.

• IPA^(key): /lenˈtis.ko/
• Rhymes: -isko
• Hyphenation: len‧tì‧sco

lentisco m (plural lentischi)

1. mastic (Pistacia lentiscus)
   • 1567, Ricettario fiorentino [Florentine Cookbook]‎^[1], page 4:

     Quelle, che per arte si traggono sono come il vino, l'olio, la pece, il sugo del lentisco, della logorizia, et altri simili.

     The ones [things] that are extracted are, for example, wine, oil, pitch, the juice of the mastic, of the licorice, and other similar ones.

• lentisco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Latin lentiscus.

• IPA^(key): /lenˈtisko/ [lẽn̪ˈt̪is.ko]

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• Rhymes: -isko
• Syllabification: len‧tis‧co

lentisco m (plural lentiscos)

1. mastic (Pistacia lentiscus)

• “lentisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024