capraricius
Latin
Etymology
From capra (“goat”) + -āricius. Attested as a feminine in the Capitulare de villis.[1]
Adjective
caprāricius (feminine caprāricia, neuter caprāricium); first/second-declension adjective
- (Medieval Latin) pertaining to a goat
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: cãpãrleatsã, cãpãrleadzã
- Romanian: căprăreață
- Italo-Western Romance:
- Italian: caprareccia, Caprereccia
- Old French: chevrerez, Quievreleche (Picard)
- Picard: Equiverlesse
- Old Occitan: cabrarez, cabrareza
- Spanish: cabrerizo, cabreriza
References
- Thomas, Antoine. 1903. Le suffixe -aricius en français et en provençal. Romania 32. 185, 189, 192, 194.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “capraritia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 137