Reconstruction:Latin/dire
Latin
editEtymology
editSyncopation of dīcere, perhaps by analogy with audīre and fāre (from facere).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*dīre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
References
edit- Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 408