salix

See also: Salix

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Salix, the genus name. Doublet of sallow.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseɪlɪks/, /ˈsælɪks/

Noun

salix (plural salixes or salices)

  1. Any member of the genus Salix; a willow.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”). Cognate with Old Irish sail, Welsh helyg, Breton haleg, Cornish helyk (“willows”), Old English sealh, English sallow.

Pronunciation

Noun

salix f (genitive salicis); third declension

  1. willow
  2. a willow branch

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative salix salicēs
genitive salicis salicum
dative salicī salicibus
accusative salicem salicēs
ablative salice salicibus
vocative salix salicēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: saltsi, saltse
    • Romanian: salcie, salce
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: sarze, sarz, sals, salz, sàles, sàlas
    • Ligurian: sàrxo, sràxo, sâxo, sêxo
    • Lombard: sales, sares
    • Piedmontese: sarz, sarze, sàles
    • Romagnol: sals, sèls
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: sôge, sôze, sôjo
    • Old French: sauz, salz, salze, sauce, saulce
      • Bourguignon: sauge
      • Champenois: sausse
      • Franc-Comtois: sâce
      • Norman: saux
      • Poitevin-Saintongeais: sàuse
      • Walloon: så
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Sardinian:
  • Borrowings:

References

  • “salix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “salix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • salix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 536
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