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Romance Etymologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Carlton C. Rice
Carlton C. Rice*
Affiliation:
Catawba College
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Abstract

[1. Sp. bazo ‘yellowish brown’: βaϑὐ ‘deep-colored’. 2. Sp. cerdo ‘hog’: *seritare (severe) ‘sow, beget, produce’. 3. Sp. empachar ‘impede’ < *impattiare : *patta ‘paw’. 4. Sp. esquejar ‘make cuttings’ < *schistiare : schistos ‘fissile’. 5. Sp. estropear ‘cripple’ < *exturpidiare. 6. Sp. estrujar ‘squeeze out’ < *extrusulare : *extrusare ‘thrust out.’ ]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , December 1931 , pp. 259 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © 1931 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Z. f. rom. Phil. 27. 347.

2 Griechisch-lat. Handwörterbuch, s. v.

3 Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods, s. v.

4 Harvard dissertation of 1902, publisht 1907, p. 81.

5 Encyclopaedia Brittanica14 7. 707.

6 This etymology is due to D. S. Blondheim, in Studies in Honor of A. Marshall Elliott 1. 245–50.

7 Manual de gram, hist.5 99.

8 Old Spanish Sibilants 120.

9 Old Provençal Phonology 67.

10 Romania 13. 300.

11 Manual5 287.