salicastrum

From salic- (“willow”) +‎ -astrum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.liˈkas.trum/, [s̠älʲɪˈkäs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.liˈkas.trum/, [säliˈkäst̪rum]

salicastrum n (genitive salicastrī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Mozarabic: *s̆augaçro
  • → Galician: chougazo, zargazo
  • → Portuguese: sargaço (metathesis of /r/ and loss of /w/)
    • → Catalan: sargàs
    • → English: sargasso
    • → Italian: sargasso
    • → Spanish: sargazo
    • → Translingual: Sargassum
  • Via a doubly-metathesized variant *s̆aguarço:
    • → Arabic: شَكْوَس‎ (šakwas), شَقْوَص‎ (šaqwaṣ), شَقْوَاص‎ (šaqwāṣ)
    • → Galician: chaguazo
    • → Old Spanish: xaguarço
      • Spanish: jaguarzo

• Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 315
• 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