Reconstruction:Latin/quassicare

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 quassō (“strike”) +‎ -icāre (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwasˈkaːre/

Verb

*quassicāre (Proto-Western-Romance)

1. hit, strike

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: cascar
  • Occitan: cascar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: cascar
  • Portuguese: cascar
  • Spanish: cascar
    • →? Sardinian: cascai

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*quassĭcāre”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 520