Reconstruction:Latin/delicatiare
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dēlicātus + -iāre (causative verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*dēlicatiāre (Proto-Ibero-Romance)
Descendants edit
- Aragonese: delgazar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: delgaçar
- ⇒ Portuguese: adelgaçar
- Old Spanish: delgazar
- ⇒ Spanish: adelgazar
References edit
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “delgado”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 440