Reconstruction:Latin/expanticare

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 ex- + pantex, pantices (“guts, bowels, belly”) + -āre.

Verb

*expanticāre (Proto-Romance)

1. burst (open), break open, cleave, rend (originally the belly? thus, disembowel or eviscerate?)

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: spãntic, spãnticari
  • Romanian: spinteca
• Italo-Romance:
  • Neapolitan: spantecare (Calabrian), spandecà (Abruzzese)
• Padanian:
  • Venetian: spantegar