salsicius
Latin
Etymology
From salsus (“salted”) + -īcius. Attested from the second century CE in the expression farta salsīcia, referring to a type of sausage.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [saɫˈsiː.ki.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [salˈsiː.t͡ʃi.us]
Adjective
salsīcius (feminine salsīcia, neuter salsīcium); first/second-declension adjective
- prepared with salt
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | salsīcius | salsīcia | salsīcium | salsīciī | salsīciae | salsīcia | |
| genitive | salsīciī | salsīciae | salsīciī | salsīciōrum | salsīciārum | salsīciōrum | |
| dative | salsīciō | salsīciae | salsīciō | salsīciīs | |||
| accusative | salsīcium | salsīciam | salsīcium | salsīciōs | salsīciās | salsīcia | |
| ablative | salsīciō | salsīciā | salsīciō | salsīciīs | |||
| vocative | salsīcie | salsīcia | salsīcium | salsīciī | salsīciae | salsīcia | |
Descendants
Most via the form salsīcia, likely reflecting a shortening of the aforementioned farta salsīcia.
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Ligurian: sâsìssa, sâtìssa, sousìssa
- Lombard: salsissa, salséssa, sansissa
- Piedmontese: sautissa, saussissa
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: socesse, sôssisse, seussisse, coucheche, couchouche
- Old French: saucice, salsiche, salchice, sauseche, sausiche, salsice, saussiche, saucis, sauciz, saucys, sauchich
- Occitano-Romance:
- Occitan: sausissa
- Auvergnat: salsissa
- Languedocien: salsissa
- Occitan: sausissa
- Ibero-Romance:
- >? Old Galician-Portuguese: souriço (see there for further descendants)
- Borrowings:
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 999: “la salsiccia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “salsīcius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 11: S–Si, page 107