salix

See also: Salix

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Salix, the genus name. Doublet of sallow.

Noun

salix (plural salixes or salices)

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

Anagrams

• Lasix, axils

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.liks/, [ˈs̠älʲɪks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.liks/, [ˈsäːliks]

Noun

salix f (genitive salicis); third declension

1. willow
2. a willow branch

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	salix	salicēs
Genitive	salicis	salicum
Dative	salicī	salicibus
Accusative	salicem	salicēs
Ablative	salice	salicibus
Vocative	salix	salicēs

Derived terms

• salicastrum
• salicīnus
• salictum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: saltsi, saltse
  • Romanian: salcie, salce
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: salice, salce, salcio
  • Neapolitan: salace, salece
  • Sicilian: salacio, salici
• 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
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: salze
  • Occitan: sauce

    Languedocien: sauç, sause

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: salz, salce ⇒ salcera
  • Asturian: salce
  • Galician: salgueiro
  • Portuguese: salgueiro
  • Spanish: sauce, salce
• Sardinian:
  • sabixi, saighi, sagili, saliche
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: shelg, shelgje
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: salisyl
  • → English: salicylic, salicet
  • → Translingual: Salix

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