Reconstruction:Latin/noptias

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

Alteration of nuptiās, with the stressed vowel taken from novus (“new”) or possibly noctem (“night”). Cf. also *novius (“newlywed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔtt͡sʲas/

Noun

*noptiās f pl (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. wedding

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	-	*/ˈnɔtt͡sʲas/
oblique	-	*/ˈnɔtt͡sʲas/

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: nozze
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: gnocis
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: nòsse
    • Piedmontese: nòsse
  • Ladin: noza
  • Romansch: nozas
  • Venetan: nose, nòçe
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: noces, nueches
    • French: noces, noce
    • Norman: neuches, neuche, neauche, nöch
    • Picard: neuche
    • Walloon: noice, nôce
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: noces
  • Gascon: noça, nòça
  • Occitan: nòças, nòça

    Provençal: nuaça, nuèça

    Vivaro-Alpine: nuòça, nuèça

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭptiae”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 245