salsicius

Latin

From salsus (“salted”) +‎ -īcius. Attested from the second century CE in the expression farta salsīcia, referring to a type of sausage.

salsīcius (feminine salsīcia, neuter salsīcium); first/second-declension adjective

Most via the form salsīcia, likely reflecting a shortening of the aforementioned phrase farta salsīcia.

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: salsiccia, salciccia
  - → Catalan: salsitxa
  - → Portuguese: salsicha
  - → Spanish: salchicha
    - → Basque: saltxitxa
- Neapolitan: saciccio, salsizzo; sauciccia
- Sicilian: sausizza, sasizza; sosizza
North Italian:
- Ligurian: sâsìssa, sâtìssa, sousìssa
- Lombard: salsissa, salséssa, sansissa
- Piedmontese: sautissa, saussissa
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: socesse
- Old French: saucice, salsiche, salchice, sauseche, sausiche, salsice, saussiche; saucis, sauciz, saucys, sauchich
  - French: saucisse (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman: saûciche, sâociche, sauchisse, sosich
  - → Middle Dutch: *salcijs
    - Dutch: saucijs
  - → Middle English: sawsiche (see there for further descendants)
Occitano-Romance:
- Occitan: sausissa
  Auvergnat: salsissa
  
  Languedocien: salsissa
Borrowings:
- Proto-Brythonic: *selsig
  - Middle Breton: silsicq, silsig
    - Breton: silzig
  - Old Welsh: selsic
    - Middle Welsh: selsig
      - Welsh: selsig
        → Cornish: selsik

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 999: “la salsiccia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “salsīcius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 107

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