Reconstruction:Latin/pavorosum
Latin
Etymology
From pavōr- (“fear”, noun) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paβoˈrosu/
Adjective
*pavōrōsum (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- fearful
- Synonym: *metōrōsum
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 726: “pauroso” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “medroso”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 66