Reconstruction:Latin/captiare
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom captus (“captured, caught”) + -iāre.
Its early existence is hinted at by the Late Latin captiōsus (“intent on hunting”), attested in the sixth century CE.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*captiāre (Proto-Romance)
- to hunt
Reconstruction notes
edit- /p/ is not reconstructible from the descendants.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: (a)cãtsari
- Romanian: agăța, acăța
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Unsorted:
References
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*captiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 328
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “847”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page regazo