sambuca

Borrowed from Italian sambuca, from Latin sambūcus (“elder tree”), masculine from sambūca, from Ancient Greek σαμβύκη (sambúkē, “sambuca”, ancient musical instrument; see below), ultimately from Aramaic ܣܐܒܒܥܚܐ‎ (sabbekha). The semantic shift is traditionally thought to come from the association of the instrument with its material.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /samˈbʊkə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sæmˈbukə/
• Rhymes: -uːkə, -ʊkə

sambuca (usually uncountable, plural sambucas)

1. An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future).

From Latin sambūca, from Ancient Greek σαμβύκη (sambúkē), ultimately from Aramaic ܣܐܒܒܥܚܐ‎ (sabbekha).

• sambuke

• (UK) IPA^(key): /samˈbjuːkə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sæmˈb(j)ukə/
• Rhymes: -uːkə

sambuca (plural sambucas)

1. (music) An ancient form of triangular harp having a very sharp, shrill tone.

sambuca f (plural sambucas)

1. (music) sambuca, sambuke

• “sambuca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• IPA^(key): /samˈbu.ka/, [sämˈbuːkä]
• Rhymes: -uka
• Hyphenation: sam‧bù‧ca

From sambuco (“elder tree”), from Latin sambūcus, masculine from sambūca, from Ancient Greek σαμβύκη (sambúkē, “sambuca”, ancient musical instrument), ultimately from Aramaic ܣܐܒܒܥܚܐ‎ (sabbekha). The semantic shift is traditionally thought to come from the association of the instrument with its material.

sambuca f (plural sambuche)

1. (usually uncountable) sambuca (liqueur)

   Hypernyms: ammazzacaffè, liquore

• sambuco

From Latin sambūca; see above.

sambuca f (plural sambuche)

1. (music) sambuca, sambuke

   Hypernyms: strumento musicale, strumento a corde

2. (music, literary) bagpipe or zampogna

   Synonyms: cornamusa, zampogna

• cambusa

From Ancient Greek σαμβύκη (sambúkē, “sambuca”), loaned from a foreign Asiatic language such as Aramaic ܣܐܒܒܥܚܐ‎ (sabbekha).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /samˈbuː.ka/

sambūca f (genitive sambūcae); first declension

1. (music) sambuca, sambuke

First declension.

• sambūcina
• sambūcus

• sambuca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sambuca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sambuca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sambuca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sambuca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin