Reconstruction:Latin/longitanus

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

From longiter (“far away”) +‎ -ānus (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /lonɟeˈtanos/

Adjective edit

*longitānus (feminine *longitāna, neuter *longitānum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

distant

Descendants edit

Italo-Romance:
- Old Italian: lontano, luntano, luintan (apocopic), luitano
  - Corsican: luntanu
  - Italian: lontano
    - → Dalmatian: luntun
    - → Neapolitan: luntano
    - → Romansch: lontan, luntaun (nativized suffix)
    - → Sicilian: luntanu
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Old Emilian: luntà
  - Old Ligurian: lointan
  - Old Lombard: luitano, loncean, loytam
- Old Venetian: luitano
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: luntein, laintaing, loingtien, luintan
  - Middle French: longtain
    - French: lointain
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: llunyedà
- Old Occitan: lonhdan
  - Gascon: luenhtan (Béarnais)

References edit

“llunyedà” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Tomaschett, Carli. 2002. "Lontan". In Dicziunari rumantsch grischun (DRG). Cuoira: Institut dal Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*longitanus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 406