sambucina

Latin

Etymology

sambūca +‎ -cen (“-singer, player”) +‎ -a (feminine suffix), with one "c" lost by haplology.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /samˈbuː.ki.na/, [s̠ämˈbuːkɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /samˈbu.t͡ʃi.na/, [sämˈbuːt͡ʃinä]

Noun

sambūcina f (genitive sambūcinae); first declension

1. sambuca player (female)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sambūcina	sambūcinae
genitive	sambūcinae	sambūcinārum
dative	sambūcinae	sambūcinīs
accusative	sambūcinam	sambūcinās
ablative	sambūcinā	sambūcinīs
vocative	sambūcina	sambūcinae

Synonyms

• sambūcistria

References

• “sambucina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sambucina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.