Reconstruction:Latin/festizare

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 festum (“party”, noun) +‎ -izāre (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /festejˈjare/

Verb

*festizāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. to celebrate, party

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: festeggiare
  • Sicilian: fistijari
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: festezâ
  • Piedmontese: festegé
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: festejar
    • → Spanish: festejar
  • French: festoyer
  • Occitan: festejar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: festexar
  • Galician: festexar
  • Old Spanish: festear
  • Portuguese: festejar

References

• Alkire, Ti, Rosen, Carol (2010) Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction, University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 290
• Meul, Claire. 2013. The fate of the -ID(I)- morpheme in the Central Dolomitic Ladin varieties of northern Italy: Variable conditioning of a morphological mechanism. In Cruschina, Silvio & Maiden, Martin & Smith, John Charles (eds.), The boundaries of pure morphology: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives, 68–95. Oxford University Press.

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