noun, masculine/saˈuko/plural: saúcos
elder (tree)
Related: baya del saúco, saúco menor, saúco rojo
Inherited 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-). Compare Galician and Portuguese sabugo, Asturian sabú, Catalan saüc.