lentisco

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1409. Learned borrowing from Latin lentīscus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lenˈtiskʊ]

Noun

lentisco m (plural lentiscos)

1. mastic (Pistacia lentiscus)

   Synonyms: aroeira, laderno

References

• “lentisco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “lentisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lentisco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Italian

Alternative forms

• lentischio (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lentīscus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lenˈti.sko/
• Rhymes: -isko
• Hyphenation: len‧tì‧sco

Noun

lentisco m (plural lentischi)

1. mastic (Pistacia lentiscus)
   • 1567, Ricettario fiorentino [Florentine Cookbook]‎^[1], page 4:

     Quelle, che per arte si traggono sono come il vino, l'olio, la pece, il sugo del lentisco, della logorizia, et altri simili.

     The ones [things] that are extracted are, for example, wine, oil, pitch, the juice of the mastic, of the licorice, and other similar ones.

Further reading

• lentisco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lentiscus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lenˈtisko/ [lẽn̪ˈt̪is.ko]
• (Castilian)

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• Rhymes: -isko
• Syllabification: len‧tis‧co

Noun

lentisco m (plural lentiscos)

1. mastic (Pistacia lentiscus)

Derived terms

• lentisco del Perú

 

Further reading

• “lentisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014