vessica

Italian

Noun

vessica f (plural vessiche)

1. Alternative form of vescica

Anagrams

• cessavi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯esˈsiː.ka/, [u̯ɛs̠ˈs̠iːkä]

Noun

vessīca f (genitive vessīcae); first declension

1. (rare) Alternative form of vēsīca (attested from Celsus onwards)

Descendants

(/ss/ was palatalized by /i/ in various descendants.)

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: bishicã, bishãcã
  • Megleno-Romanian: bișică, bișocă
  • Romanian: bășică, beșică — regional
  • → Albanian: fshikë
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vescica, vessica (archaic), busciga (Siena)
  • Neapolitan: vessica, vassica, vessiga
  • Sicilian: vussica, bussica, viscica, vuscica, buscica
  • → Sardinian: bussica (see there for more)
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: psiga, fsiga, vessiga, sfiga
    • Ligurian: vescîga, mescîga, p-scîa
    • Lombard: vessiga, vissiga, essiga, psiga, fsiga, psija
    • Piedmontese: vëssia, psia, msia
    • Romagnol: busciga, psiga
  • Friulian: vissie
  • Istriot: biseîga
  • Ladin: viscia
  • Romansch: vaschia, vischigia, vascheia, vschia
  • Venetan: vesiga
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: veixiga
  • Franco-Provençal: vesyò
  • Old French: vessie (see there for further descendants)
  • Gascon: veishiga
  • Occitan: vessiga

    Vivaro-Alpine: vessia

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: veixica, vixiga
  • Asturian: vexiga
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Galician: vexiga, boxiga, buxiga, bexiga
      • →? Portuguese: bexiga
  • Old Spanish: vexiga
    • Spanish: vejiga

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 143: “la vescica” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1380: “une vessie gonflée” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vēsīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 342
• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “bussíkka”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg