Reconstruction:Latin/impinctum

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 edit

Etymology edit

Alternative past participle for impingō, instead of the Classical participle impāctus.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /emˈpeŋtu/

Participle edit

*impinctus (feminine *impincta, neuter *impinctum); first/second-declension participle (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

pushed, shoved

Related terms edit

*expinctum

Reconstruction notes edit

The feminine has yielded several nouns in Romance.

Descendants edit

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: pimtu
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: impinto, impinta
- Sicilian: mpintu, mpinciutu
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: impinte (Aosta), empeinta (Lyon)
- Old French: empeinte, empainte
  - Picard: empaint
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: empent
  - Catalan: empenta ⇒ semptenta
- Occitan: empint, empench
  Provençal: empencha
  
  Vivaro-Alpine: empencha
- → Spanish: empenta
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: empenta ⇒ empentón ⇒ empentonada

References edit

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “empellón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 577
“empenta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭmpĭngĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 589