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Latin
Etymology
From salic- (“willow”) + -astrum.
Pronunciation
Noun
salicastrum n (genitive salicastrī); second declension
- a kind of wild vine found in willow-thickets
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 315
- Corriente, Federico (2008) “arcazón”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186
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