Reconstruction:Latin/contrafacio
Latin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
edit*contrāfaciō (present infinitive *contrāfacere, perfect active *contrāfēcī, supine *contrāfactum); third conjugation iō-variant, irregular passive voice (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants
edit- Italian: contraffare
- Old French: contrefaire, countrefaire
- English: counterfeit
- French: contrefaire
- Portuguese: contrafazer
- Romanian: contraface
- Spanish: contrahacer
References
edit- Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 15