The corpus record — Latin

salictarius

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Where it lives

De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

sălictārĭus — Lewis & Short

sălictārĭus, a, umid..

I Adj., of or belonging to willows, willow-: lupus, a kind of wild hop that grows in willowgrounds, Plin. 21, 15, 50, § 86.—Hence,

II Subst.: sălictārĭus, ii, m., one who takes care of willow-trees, Cato, R. R. 11, 1.

In the wild

salictarium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.15.p1
salictarium Cato, De agri cultura 11
salictarius Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.21.p70

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.