offoco
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ob- + fōc- (“throat”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ofˈfoː.koː/, [ɔfˈfoːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ofˈfo.ko/, [ofˈfɔːko]
Verb
[edit]offōcō (present infinitive offōcāre, perfect active offōcāvī, supine offōcātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to strangle, throttle, choke, suffocate
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of offōcō (first conjugation)
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Reflexes of the late variant officāre:
Reflexes of an assumed variant *affōcāre:
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
[edit]- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “ahogar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 87
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ŏffōcare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 337
Further reading
[edit]- “offoco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- offoco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.