Reconstruction:Latin/impinctus

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

Alternative past participle for impingō, instead of the Classical participle impāctus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /emˈpento/

Participle

*impinctus (feminine *impincta, neuter *impinctum); first/second-declension participle (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

pushed, shoved

Related terms

*expinctus

Reconstruction notes

The feminine has yielded several nouns in Romance.

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: impinto, impinta
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: impinte (Aosta), empeinta (Lyon)
- Old French: empeinte, empainte
  - Picard: empaint
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: empent
  - Catalan: empenta ⇒ semptenta
- Occitan: empint, empench
  Provençal: empencha
  Vivaro-Alpine: empencha
- → Spanish: empenta
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: empenta ⇒ empentón ⇒ empentonada

References

Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “empellón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 577
“empenta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ĭmpĭngĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 589