Reconstruction:Latin/torco

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Reconstruction:Latin/torco

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

From *torquō, from Classical Latin torqueō.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔrko/

Verb

*torcō (present infinitive *torcere, perfect active *torsī, supine *tortum or *torsum); third conjugation (Proto-Romance)

1. twist

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: torcu, toartsiri
  • Romanian: toarce, toarcere
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: torcere
  • Sicilian: tòrciri
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: torchere, torciri, trochere, dorchere
• North Italian:
  • Piedmontese: tòrze
  • Venetian: tòrxer, tòrzer, tòrxar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: tòrcer
  • Occitan: tòrcer, torcir
  • Old French: tortre, tuertre, tordre
    • French: tordre
    • Norman: teurtre (Jersey)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: torcer
  • Portuguese: torcer
  • Spanish: torcer

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “tŏrquēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 13: To–Tyrus, page 98

1. Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 95