Reconstruction:Latin/calfare

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 Classical cal(e)facere. Cf. facere > Late Latin fāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalˈfare/

Verb

*calfāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. heat

Derived terms

• *excalfāre

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Neapolitan: calfare
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: calfar
  • Franco-Provençal: charfar
  • Gascon: cauhar
  • Occitan: calfar, caufar, chaufar
  • Old French: chaufer (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Spanish: calfar
    • Spanish: calfar (Murcia)

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “escalfar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 667
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “calefacere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 80