Reconstruction:Latin/admortire

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.

Latin

Etymology

From ad- +‎ mort(u)us (“dead”) +‎ -īre (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ammorˈtire/

Verb

*admortīre (Proto-Romance)

  1. deaden, make numb

Reconstruction notes

3SG */ammorˈtesket/ > Romanian amorțește, Portuguese amortece.

Conjugations such as the above were used to build new infinitives in Sardinian and Ibero-Romance.

Derived terms

  • *admorticīre
    • Catalan: esmorteir (with substitution of prefix)

Descendants

References

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