saúco

See also: sauco and saŭco

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish sabuco, from Latin sabūcus, variant of sambūcus. With the case of Spanish, it was influenced in Vulgar Latin by the suffix -uccus (hence the -c- instead of expected -g-)[1]. Compare Galician and Portuguese sabugo, Catalan saüc.

Noun

saúco m (plural saúcos)

  1. elder (tree)

References
  1. https://www.scribd.com/document/220768067/Corominas-Diccionario-Etimologico
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