different between anisette vs sambuca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French anisette, from anis + -ette.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

anisette (countable and uncountable, plural anisettes)

1. A French alcoholic liqueur flavored with anise

Translations

Anagrams

• taenites, tetanies, tetanise

French

Etymology

anis +? -ette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.z?t/

Noun

anisette f (plural anisettes)

1. anisette

Descendants

• ? English: anisette
• ? German: Anisette
• ? Italian: anisetta
• ? Portuguese: anisete, aniseta
• ? Romanian: aniset
• ? Spanish: anisete

Further reading

• “anisette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

anisette f

1. plural of anisetta

Anagrams

• esentati, esitante, inattese, inesatte, sentiate

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian sambuca, from Latin samb?cus (“elder tree”), considered to be from the instrument name samb?ca for its being made of elderwood.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sam?b?k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sæm?buk?/
• Rhymes: -u?k?, -?k?

Noun

sambuca (usually uncountable, plural sambucas)

1. An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future).

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin samb?ca, from Ancient Greek ??????? (sambúk?), ultimately from Aramaic ????????? (sabb???).

Alternative forms

• sambuke

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sam?bju?k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sæm?b(j)uk?/
• Rhymes: -u?k?

Noun

sambuca (plural sambucae or sambucas) (historical)

1. (music) An ancient form of triangular harp having a very sharp, shrill tone.
2. An ancient type of ship-borne siege engine.

Translations

Galician

Noun

sambuca f (plural sambucas)

1. (music) sambuca, sambuke

Further reading

• “sambuca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sam?bu.ka/
• Rhymes: -uka
• Hyphenation: sam?bù?ca

Etymology 1

From sambuco (“elder tree”), from Latin samb?cus, considered to be from the instrument name samb?ca for its being made of elderwood.

Noun

sambuca f (plural sambuche)

1. (usually uncountable) sambuca (liqueur)

   Hypernyms: ammazzacaffè, liquore

Related terms

• sambuco

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin samb?ca.

Noun

sambuca f (plural sambuche)

1. (music) sambuca, sambuke

   Hypernyms: strumento musicale, strumento a corde

2. (music, literary) bagpipe or zampogna

   Synonyms: cornamusa, zampogna

Anagrams

• cambusa

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (sambúk?, “sambuca”), loaned from Aramaic ????????? (sabb???).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sam?bu?.ka/, [s?äm?bu?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sam?bu.ka/, [s?m?bu?k?]

Noun

samb?ca f (genitive samb?cae); first declension

1. (music) sambuca, sambuke
2. sambuca, sambuke (siege engine)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• samb?cina
• samb?cus

References

• sambuca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sambuca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sambuca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sambuca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sambuca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin