Reconstruction:Latin/minutiare
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From minūtus + -iāre (causative verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*minūtiāre (Proto-Romance)
Reconstruction notes edit
Various descendants have taken on the prefix ex- or dis-.
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: minuzzare (archaic), sminuzzare
- Sicilian: munuzzari
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
- Old Spanish: menuzar
- Spanish: desmenuzar
- → Catalan: desmenussar
- Spanish: desmenuzar
References edit
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*mĭnūtiare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 410
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĭnūtiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 134