salicetum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin salictum, salicētum (“plantation, grove or thicket of willows”), from salix (“willow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sæləˈsiːdəm/
Noun
salicetum (plural salicetums or saliceta)
- A group of willow trees.
- 1838 February 1, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:
- In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.
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Anagrams
- multicase
Latin
Alternative forms
- salictum
Etymology
salix (“willow”) + -ētum (“grove”)
Noun
salicētum n (genitive salicētī); second declension
- a plantation, grove, or thicket of willows
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | salicētum | salicēta |
| Genitive | salicētī | salicētōrum |
| Dative | salicētō | salicētīs |
| Accusative | salicētum | salicēta |
| Ablative | salicētō | salicētīs |
| Vocative | salicētum | salicēta |
Descendants
- English: salicetum
- French: saussaie
- Galician: Salcedo, Salceda
- Italian: saliceto
- Provençal: sauzeda
- Romanian: sălcet
- Spanish: saucedo, salceda, salcedo
References
- “salicetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- salicetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)