salictum

From salix (“willow tree”) +‎ -tum (“grove; plantation”). This form is attested earlier and more numerously than salicētum, the latter might have undergone an analogical leveling induced by the sheer number of other derivatives in -ētum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saˈlɪk.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈlik.tum]

salictum n (genitive salictī); second declension

1. a plantation, grove, or thicket planted of willows
   • c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia 4.6.4–10:

     [Euclio] […]
     nimis hercle ego illum corvom ad me veniat velim,
     qui indicium fecit, ut ego illi aliquid boni
     dicam; nam quod edit tam duim quam perduim.
     nunc hoc ubi abstrudam cogito solum locum.
     Silvani lucus extra murum est avius,
     crebro salicto oppletus. Ibi sumam locum.
     Certumst, Silvano potius credam quam Fide.

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   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De divinatione I.20.40:

     Num te ad fabulas revoco vel nostrorum vel Graecorum poetarum? Narrat enim et apud Ennium Vestalis illa: "Et cita cum tremulis anus attulit artubus lumen, talia tum memorat lacrimans, exterrita somno. Eurydica prognata, pater quam noster amavit, vires vitaque corpus meum nunc deserit omne. Nam me visus homo pulcher per amoena salicta et ripas raptare locosque novos. […] "

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   • c. 41 BCE – 39 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues I.53–54:

     hinc tibi, quae semper, vicino ab limite saepes
     Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti

     • Translation by James Bradstreet Greenough

       Here, as of old, your neighbour's bordering hedge, that feasts with willow-flower the Hybla bees, […]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “salictum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “salictum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “salictum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.