Reconstruction:Latin/passare

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From passus (“step, pace”) +‎ -āre (verb-forming suffix). Later borrowed from Romance into Medieval and Modern Latin (e.g. Queneau's autobi passebant completi).

• IPA^(key): /pasˈsare/

*passāre (Proto-Romance)

1. go through, pass by

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: păsa^[1]
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: passà

    Gallurese: passà

    Sassarese: passà

  • Italian: passare
  • Sicilian: passari
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: passae, passai, passare
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: pasâ
    • Romagnol: pasêr
    • Piedmontese: passé
  • Friulian: passâ
  • Istriot: passà
  • Ladin: passer
  • Romansch: passar, passer
  • Venetan: pasar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: passar
  • Occitan: passar
  • Old French: passer (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: pasar
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: pasar
    • Extremaduran: passal
    • Leonese: pasare
    • Mirandese: passar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: passar
    • Galician: pasar
    • Portuguese: passar
  • Spanish: pasar

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*passare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 726