Reconstruction:Latin/pilucare
Latin
Etymology
From pilāre (“remove hair”) + an infix *-ūc-, perhaps by analogy with the synonym pair mandere : mandūcāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peluˈkare/
Verb
*pilūcāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- remove parts from something
Derived terms
Descendants
- ⇒ Catalan: espellugar (Pego)[1]
- Occitan: pelugar
- Limousin: pludzoú
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pĭlūcare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 505
- ^ “espellugar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.