allacto
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ad- + lact- (“milk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Attested in Marcellus Empiricus.[1]
Verb
[edit]allactō (present infinitive allactāre, perfect active allactāvī, supine allactātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)
- to breastfeed (said of the mother)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of allactō (first conjugation)
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 53: “allattare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “allactare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 326