Reconstruction:Latin/flecticare

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 flectō +‎ -icāre (frequentative ending).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flekteˈkare/

Verb

*flecticāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. bend

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: flechier ⇒ flechir
    • French: fléchir
    • Lorrain: fieiché
    • → Occitan: flechir
• Italo-Romance:
  • Neapolitan:

    Apulia: gnettecai

    Taranto: juttecare

  • Sicilian: gnutticari

References

• “fléchir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*flĕcticare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 618