Reconstruction:Latin/admordium

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 admordeō (“to bite into”).

Noun

*admordium (Proto-Ibero-Romance)

1. breakfast

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: *almorço
  • Fala: almorzu
  • Galician: almorzo
  • Portuguese: almoço (see there for further descendants)
• Old Leonese:
  • Mirandese: almuorço
• Old Spanish: almuerço
  • Spanish: almuerzo

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “182. *admordium”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 13
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “almuerzo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 204
• José Pedro Machado (1995) “almoço”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 208, column 1