Reconstruction:Latin/longitanus

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 longiter (“far away”) +‎ -ānus (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lonɟeˈtanos/

Adjective

*longitānus (feminine *longitāna, neuter *longitānum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. distant

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: lontano, luntano, luintan (apocopic), luitano
    • Corsican: luntanu
    • Italian: lontano
      • → Dalmatian: luntun
      • → Neapolitan: luntano
      • → Romansch: lontan, luntaun (nativized suffix)
      • → Sicilian: luntanu
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Old Emilian: luntà
    • Old Ligurian: lointan
    • Old Lombard: luitano, loncean, loytam
  • Old Venetan: luitano
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: luntein, laintaing, loingtien, luintan
    • Middle French: longtain
      • French: lointain
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: llunyedà
  • Old Occitan: lonhdan
    • Gascon: luenhtan (Béarnais)

References

• “llunyedà” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• Tomaschett, Carli. 2002. "Lontan". In Dicziunari rumantsch grischun (DRG). Cuoira: Institut dal Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*longitanus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 406