salictum

From salix (“willow tree”) +‎ -tum (adjective-forming suffix). Compare arbustum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saˈlɪk.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈlik.t̪um]

salictum n (genitive salictī); second declension

1. alternative form of salicētum
   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues I.53–54:

     hinc tibi, quae semper, vicino ab limite saepes
     Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti

     • Translation by James Bradstreet Greenough

       Here, as of old, your neighbour's bordering hedge, that feasts with willow-flower the Hybla bees, […]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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