saúco
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish sabuco, from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. With the case of Spanish, it was influenced in Vulgar Latin by the suffix -uccus (hence the -c- instead of expected -g-).[1] Compare Galician and Portuguese sabugo, Asturian sabú, Catalan saüc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]saúco m (plural saúcos)
- elder (tree)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “saúco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “saúco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
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- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/uko
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- es:Trees
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