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

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	salsīcius	salsīcia	salsīcium	salsīciī	salsīciae	salsīcia
Genitive	salsīciī	salsīciae	salsīciī	salsīciōrum	salsīciārum	salsīciōrum
Dative	salsīciō	salsīciae	salsīciō	salsīciīs
Accusative	salsīcium	salsīciam	salsīcium	salsīciōs	salsīciās	salsīcia
Ablative	salsīciō	salsīciā	salsīciō	salsīciīs
Vocative	salsīcie	salsīcia	salsīcium	salsīciī	salsīciae	salsīcia

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

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: salsiccia, salciccia
  - → Catalan: salsitxa
  - → Ladino: sarsicha
  - → Portuguese: salsicha
  - → Spanish: salchicha
    - → Basque: saltxitxa
- Neapolitan: saciccio, sasiccia f
- Sicilian: sausizza, sasizza; sosizza
North Italian:
- Ligurian: sâsìssa, sâtìssa, sousìssa
- Lombard: salsissa, salséssa, sansissa
- Piedmontese: sautissa, saussissa
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: socesse, sôssisse, seussisse, coucheche, couchouche
- 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), volumes 11: S–Si, page 107

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