sambucus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [samˈbuː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [samˈbuː.kus]

From sambūca (“ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin”), from Ancient Greek σαμβύκη (sambúkē, “sambuca”), ultimately from Aramaic סַבְּכָא (sabbəḵā).

sambūcus m (genitive sambūcī); second declension

1. sambuca player

Second-declension noun.

• sambūca
• sambūcina
• sambūcistria

Masculine form of sambūca (“ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin”), as the wind instrument was made from the wood of the elder tree.^[1] +‎ -ūcus was a suffix common to several other plant names.

• sabūcus

sambūcus f (genitive sambūcī); second declension

1. elder tree, elderberry

Second-declension noun.

• sambūceus
• sambūcum

• “sambucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sambucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Whatmough, Joshua (1950) The Dialects of Ancient Gaul, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, published 1970, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1196