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From Salix, the genus name. Doublet of sallow.

salix (plural salixes or salices)

1. Any member of the genus Salix; a willow.

• Lasix, axils

From Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”). Cognate with Old Irish sail, Welsh helyg, Breton haleg, Cornish helyk (“willows”), Old English sealh, English sallow.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.liks/, [ˈs̠älʲɪks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.liks/, [ˈsäːliks]

salix f (genitive salicis); third declension

1. willow
2. a willow branch

Third-declension noun.

• salicastrum
• salicīnus
• salictum

• “salix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “salix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• salix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 536