Reconstruction:Latin/verruculum

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 vericulum, with a change in suffix to -uculum and with /rr/ taken from ferrum (“iron”). Indirectly attested in the works of Augustine via the derivative veruclātus (“locked, bolted”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /verˈroklu/

Noun

*verruculum ? (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

small rod

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: verrocchio
  verocchio (Versilia)
North Italian:
- Emilian: vrij
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: verroil
- Old French: verroil
  - Middle French: verrouil
    - French: verrou
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: borroll (Pallarés)
- Gascon: vorrolh, vorrelh
- Occitan: varrolh (most dialects; influenced by *barra)
  Limousin: verruelh
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: birol (Belsetán)
- Old Portuguese: verrolho
- Old Spanish: berrojo

Forms influenced (again) by ferrum (“iron”):

North Italian:
- Ligurian: frogio
- Piedmontese:
  Western: froj
  Eastern: frocc, frucc
  Northern: foregg, frugg
- Romagnol: fròcc
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: ferroil
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: ferroll, forroll, farroll ⇒ forrollat, ferrollat, forrellac, foriac
- Occitan:
  Auvergnat: farrolh, ferrolh
  Languedocien: ferrolh
  Provençal: ferrolh
  Vivaro-Alpine: ferrolh
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese:
  Ansotano: forrullo
  Benasqués: farroll
- Asturian: ferroyu
- Galician: ferrollo
- Portuguese: ferrolho
- Spanish: herrojo

Forms influenced by cerrar < serrāre "bolt, shut":

Aragonese: cerrollo, zerrullo
Spanish: cerrojo

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vĕrĭcŭlum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 286