saúco
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish sabuco, from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. With the case of Spanish, it was influenced in Vulgar Latin by the suffix -uccus (hence the -c- instead of expected -g-).[1] Compare Galician and Portuguese sabugo, Catalan saüc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]saúco m (plural saúcos)
- elder (tree)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “saúco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
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- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
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- es:Trees
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