arpento
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From French, from Late Latin arepennis (“surface of a field”), from Gaulish *are-penno- (“end, extremity of a field”); the first element is from Proto-Celtic *(p)ari-, *are, from Proto-Indo-European *per-; the second element, *penis (“head, tip”) is of uncertain origin, but probably related to *kʷennom (“head”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
arpento m (plural arpenti)
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “fare-kwenno”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 123