Reconstruction:Latin/coactitare

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwaˈtaːr/

Verb

*coactitāre (Proto-Gallo-Romance)

1. Alternative form of *coacticāre (“to press”) (cf. *volvitāre~*volvicāre)

Reconstruction notes

The initial /kw-/ is suggested by the absence, in northern Occitan, of any variant showing palatalization of /k/, as well as parallelism with the northern outcomes of *coacticāre. The absence of /w/ from Gascon, as opposed to its survival in for instance /ˈkwate/ < Latin quattuor, would likely be due to its being found in a pretonic syllable (cf. /kaˈtɔrze/ < quattuordecim).

An original */-kt-/ (> */jt/) would be expected to yield */t͡ʃ/ in various regions, but collision with the following */t/ may have depalatalized it.

Descendants

• Gascon: catar
• Occitan: catar

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*coactitare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 814