saúco

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See also: sauco and saŭco

Spanish

Etymology

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.

Noun

saúco m (plural saúcos)

  1. elder (tree)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

“saúco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Further reading

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