salicastrum

From salic (“willow”) +‎ -astrum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.liˈkas.trum/, [sa.lɪˈkas.trũ]

salicastrum n (genitive salicastrī); second declension

1. a kind of wild vine found in willow-thickets

Second declension.

• → Arabic: شَكْوَس‎ (šakwas, “rockrose”), شَقْوَاص‎ (šaqwāṣ)
  • → Spanish: jaguarzo (“rockrose”) (from unattested variants)
• Galician: chaguazo, chagazo (“a kind of rockrose”)
• Portuguese: sargaço (“gulfweed”)
  • → English: sargasso
  • → Italian: sargasso
  • → Spanish: sargazo
  • Translingual: Sargassum
• Spanish: arcazón (“osier-twig”)

• Corriente, Federico (2008), “arcazón”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186
• salicastrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salicastrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette