Reconstruction:Latin/fragula

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 frāga +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡola/

Noun

*frāgula f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. strawberry

Reconstruction notes

The lack of syncope suggests this is a relatively late formation.

Italian descendants were borrowed into local Medieval Latin as frāgula (attested from 1295).

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈfraɡola/	*/ˈfraɡolas/
oblique	*/ˈfraɡola/	*/ˈfraɡolas/

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: fraula

    Gallurese: fràula, fràgula

    Sicilian: fràgula

  • Italian: fragola, fravola
    • → Arabic: فَرَاوْلَة (farāwla)
    • → Byzantine Greek: φράγουλα (phrágoula)
      • Greek: φράουλα (fráoula)
    • → Sardinian: fràgula
  • Neapolitan: fravola
  • Sicilian: fràgula, fravula, fraula
    • → Maltese: frawla
• Western Romance of N. Italy:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: fròla, frègla, frèvla
    • Piedmontese: fròla
    • Romagnol: frègla, frèvla
  • Friulian: freule
• Western Romance:
  • Catalan: fraula, fraura (Alghero)
  • Emilian: fròla
  • Friulian: fraule
  • Piedmontese: fròla

References

• “fraula” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fragum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 749