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Reconstruction:Latin/piluco
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Latin
Etymology
From pilō (“remove hair”) + an infix *-ūc-, perhaps by analogy with the synonym pair mandō : mandūcō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈluko/
Verb
*pilūcō (present infinitive *pilūcāre, perfect active *pilūcāvī, supine *pilūcātum); first conjugation
- (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) remove parts from something
Derived terms
- *pilūccō
Descendants
- ⇒ Catalan: espellugar (Pego)[1]
- Occitan: pelugar
- Limousin: pludzoú
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*pĭlūcare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 505
- “espellugar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.