Reconstruction:Latin/rosicare
Latin
Etymology
From rōsus (“gnawed”) + -icāre (frequentative verb-forming suffix), the former being the past participle of rōdere (“gnaw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /roseˈkare/
Verb
*rōsicāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: rosicare
- Neapolitan: rusecare
- Sicilian: rusicari
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: rosigar, arrosigar
References
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*rosicare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 553