Reconstruction:Latin/longitanus

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 longiter (“far away”) +‎ -ānus (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /lonjeˈtanos/

Adjective

*longitānus (feminine *longitāna, neuter *longitānum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

distant

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Old Italian: lontano, luntano, luintan (apocopic), luitano
  - Corsican: luntanu
  - Italian: lontano
    - → Dalmatian: luntun
    - → Neapolitan: luntano
    - → Romansch: lontan, luntaun (nativized suffix)
    - → Sicilian: luntanu
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Old Emilian: luntà
  - Old Ligurian: lointan
  - Old Lombard: luitano, loncean, loytam
- Old Venetan: luitano
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: luntein, laintaing, loingtien, luintan
  - Middle French: longtain
    - French: lointain
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: llunyedà
- Old Occitan: lonhdan
  - Gascon: luenhtan (Béarnais)

References

“llunyedà” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Tomaschett, Carli. 2002. "Lontan". In Dicziunari rumantsch grischun (DRG). Cuoira: Institut dal Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*longitanus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 406