pergamena
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin pergamēna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pergamena f (plural pergamene)
Further reading edit
- pergamena in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- pergamīna (reborrowed once Greek η shifted to /i/; attested in Tironian notes)
- *pergamēnus, *pergamīnus (masculine forms, perhaps formed by ellipsis of (papȳrus) pergamēnus)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Περγαμηνὴ (διφθέρα) (Pergamēnḕ (diphthéra), literally “Pergamene hide”). First attested in Diocletian's edict.
Noun edit
pergamēna f (genitive pergamēnae); first declension (Late Latin)
Related terms edit
- pergamēnus ('Pergamene')
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Old Sardinian: [Term?]
- Sardinian: bargaminu; ⇒ peddecaminu (crossed with pedde)
- Sassarese: bargamina
- Old Sardinian: [Term?]
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: pergaminho
- Spanish: pergamino
Unsorted borrowings:
- Danish: pergament
- German: Pergament
- Norwegian: pergament
- Romanian: pergament
- Russian: пергамент (pergament)
- Swedish: pergament
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pĕrgamēna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 240