salignus

From salix (“willow”, oblique stem salic-) + -nus. Compare larignus and īlignus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saˈlɪŋ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈliɲ.ɲus]

salignus (feminine saligna, neuter salignum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) willow
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 4.109–111:

     Invitent croceis [apes] halantes floribus horti
     Et custos furum atque avium cum falce saligna
     Hellespontiaci servet tutela Priapi.

     May gardens bright, fragrant with flower, lure them [the bees] and Hellespontian Priap with his willow scythe the robbing bee and the birds keep away.

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Translingual: Salignus

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