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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From sambūca (“ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin”), from Ancient Greek σαμβύκη (sambúkē, “sambuca”), ultimately from Aramaic סַבְּכָא (sabbəḵā).
Noun
sambūcus m (genitive sambūcī); second declension
- sambuca player
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Etymology 2
Masculine form of sambūca (“ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin”), as the wind instrument was made from the wood of the elder tree.[1] + -ūcus was a suffix common to several other plant names.
Noun
sambūcus f (genitive sambūcī); second declension
- elder tree, elderberry
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “sambucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sambucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ “sambuco” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
- Whatmough, Joshua (1950) The Dialects of Ancient Gaul, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, published 1970, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1196