Reconstruction:Latin/expanticare
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From ex- + pantex, pantices (“guts, bowels, belly”) + -āre.
Verb edit
*expanticāre (Proto-Romance)
- burst (open), break open, cleave, rend (originally the belly? thus, disembowel or eviscerate?)
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: spãntic, spãnticari
- Romanian: spinteca
- Italo-Romance:
- Neapolitan: spantecare (Calabrian), spandecà (Abruzzese)
- Padanian:
- Venetian: spantegar