Reconstruction:Latin/pulica

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

Alternative forms

• *pūlicōnem

Etymology

From pūlic- (“flea”) +‎ -a (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːleɡa/

Noun

*pūlica f (Proto-Western-Romance)

1. flea

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈpuːleɡa/	*/ˈpuːleɡas/
oblique	*/ˈpuːleɡa/	*/ˈpuːleɡas/

Descendants

• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: pulga, polga, pluga, pruga
    • Lombard: pulga
  • Venetan: pułega
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: pulga
  • Galician: pulga
  • Portuguese: pulga
  • Spanish: pulga
    • → Tagalog: pulgas
• Italo-Romance:
  • Sicilian: appulicari (ad + *pulica + -are)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 474: “la pulce; le pulci” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “pulga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 685