sălcet

Forms

sălcet n (plural sălceturi)^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin salicētum (“willow thicket”) according to Ciorănescu, the REW, Cihac and Wiktionary.^[2][3][4][1] The REW and Ciorănescu compare Italian salceto, French saussaie and Occitan sauzeda.^[3][2] The DLR and MDA2 take it instead as a formation from Romanian salce + -et, the first part being a variant of salcie.^[5][6] The Latin word is a levelled form of salictum, on salix (“willow”).^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 dates the first record to the Anonymus Caransebesiensis, a Romanian–Latin glossary of c. 1650–1700.^[6][5] The Lexicon de la Buda of 1825 has sălcetu with the Latin salictum, salicetum and the German Weidengebüsch.^[7]

Semantic evolution

The meaning has stayed that of a place covered with willows, a willow thicket or wood.^[5][6] The DLR quotes the periodical Familia of 1886 on the pleasure of looking at a dense willow grove.^[5] Its synonyms include sălciș and regional sălcărie, sălcime and sălciniș.^[6]

Timeline

• c. 1650–1700 – in the Anonymus Caransebesiensis.^[6]
• 1825 – in the Lexicon de la Buda.^[7]
• 1886 – “a dense willow grove” in the periodical Familia.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A place overgrown with willows; a willow thicket or grove.^[5][6][1]

Related words

• salcie
• sălciș
• sălciu

Usage notes

The plural is sălceturi or sălcete.^[5][6]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. sălcie
3. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 7532
4. ^ Cihac, A. de (1870), Dictionnaire d'étymologie daco-romane I: Éléments latins comparés avec les autres langues romanes, Frankfurt am Main, p. 238
5. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. sălcet
6. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 770
7. ^ a b Lesicon românescu-latinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu quare de mai mulți autori, în cursul a trideci și mai multor ani s-au lucrat (1825), Buda: Typographia Universității (the Lexicon of Buda, ed. Petru Maior et al.), p. 605