wardo
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Frankish *wardōn (“to guard, protect”).
Supposedly attested in the seventh century in the form guardāre, but this has yet to be confirmed.[1] The earliest certain attestation appears to be the prefixed rewardant in the Reichenau Glossary.
Verb
editwardō (present infinitive wardāre, perfect active wardāvī, supine wardātum); first conjugation (Early Medieval Latin)
Conjugation
editDescendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
edit- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “wardare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1129