salsicius

Latin

Etymology

From salsus (“salted”) +‎ -īcius. Attested from the second century CE in the expression farta salsīcia, referring to a type of sausage.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /salˈsiː.ki.us/, [s̠äɫ̪ˈs̠iːkiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /salˈsi.t͡ʃi.us/, [sälˈsiːt͡ʃius]

Adjective

salsīcius (feminine salsīcia, neuter salsīcium); first/second-declension adjective

1. prepared with salt

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	salsīcius	salsīcia	salsīcium		salsīciī	salsīciae	salsīcia
Genitive	salsīciī	salsīciae	salsīciī		salsīciōrum	salsīciārum	salsīciōrum
Dative	salsīciō		salsīciō		salsīciīs
Accusative	salsīcium	salsīciam	salsīcium		salsīciōs	salsīciās	salsīcia
Ablative	salsīciō	salsīciā	salsīciō		salsīciīs
Vocative	salsīcie	salsīcia	salsīcium		salsīciī	salsīciae	salsīcia

Descendants

Most via the form salsīcia, likely reflecting a shortening of the aforementioned phrase farta salsīcia.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: salsiccia, salciccia (regional)
    • → Catalan: salsitxa
    • → Ladino: sarsicha
    • → Portuguese: salsicha
    • → Spanish: salchicha
      • → Basque: saltxitxa
  • Neapolitan: saciccio, sasiccia f
  • Sicilian: sausizza, sasizza (used more frequently today), sosizza (influenced by French saucisse)
• North Italian:
  • Ligurian: sâsìssa, sâtìssa, sousìssa
  • Lombard: salsissa, salséssa, sansissa
  • Piedmontese: sautissa, saussissa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: socesse, sôssisse, seussisse, coucheche, couchouche
  • Old French: saucice, salsiche, salchice, sauseche, sausiche, salsice, saussiche, saucis, sauciz, saucys, sauchich
    • French: saucisse (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: saûciche, sâociche, sauchisse, sosich
    • → Middle Dutch: *salcijs
      • Dutch: saucijs
    • → Middle English: sawsiche (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Occitan: sausissa

    Auvergnat: salsissa

    Languedocien: salsissa

• Borrowings:
  • Proto-Brythonic: *selsig
    • Middle Breton: silsicq, silsig
      • Breton: silzig
    • Old Welsh: selsic
      • Middle Welsh: selsig
        • Welsh: selsig
          • → Cornish: selsik

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 999: “la salsiccia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “salsīcius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 107