salicetum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin salictum, salicētum (“plantation, grove or thicket of willows”), from salix (“willow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæləˈsiːdəm/

Noun

salicetum (plural salicetums or saliceta)

1. A group of willow trees.
   • 1838 February, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:

     In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.

Anagrams

• multicase

Latin

Alternative forms

• salictum

Etymology

salix (“willow”) +‎ -ētum (“grove”)

Noun

salicētum n (genitive salicētī); second declension

1. a plantation, grove, or thicket of willows

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	salicētum	salicēta
genitive	salicētī	salicētōrum
dative	salicētō	salicētīs
accusative	salicētum	salicēta
ablative	salicētō	salicētīs
vocative	salicētum	salicēta

Descendants

• English: salicetum
• French: saussaie
• Galician: Salcedo, Salceda
• Italian: saliceto
• Provençal: sauzeda
• Romanian: sălcet
• Spanish: saucedo, salceda, salcedo

References

• “salicetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salicetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)