salictum Latin · revision 33252

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *salik-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [saˈlɪk.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [saˈlik.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salictum''' ''n'' (genitive salictī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|salix|-tum|t1=willow|t2=grove]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|salix]] to [[itc-pro|*salik-]], an Italo-Celtic tree name that he thinks is probably not Indo-European.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|sail|t=willow]], [[cy|helyg|t=willow]], [[goh|salaha|t=willow]] and [[ang|sealh|t=willow]].^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary notes that it is attested earlier and more often than [[m|la|salicētum]],^(Wiktionary) from which Lewis & Short derived it by contraction.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) and Köbler from Ennius;^(Köbler 2010) Cato also has it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a group of willows, growing wild or planted, an osier bed.^(OLD 2012) Cato, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Juvenal and Columella use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A group or plantation of [[m|en|willow|alt=willows]], an [[m|en|osier]] bed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[salictārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[salix]]

+ * [[salicētum]]

+ * [[salignus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}