Reconstruction:Latin/caimare
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Classical Latin cremāre, apparently blended with the Byzantine Greek κάϊμα (káïma, “burning”, often used in medical contexts; from the verb καίω (kaíō)).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*caimāre (Proto-Ibero-Romance)
- to burn
Descendants
edit- Old Galician-Portuguese: queimar
- Old Leonese: queimar, *queimare
- Old Spanish: quemar
- Navarro-Aragonese: quemar
- Aragonese: quemar (Ansó)
References
edit- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “quemar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 714