Reconstruction:Latin/festidiare

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 edit

Etymology edit

From festum (“party, feast”) +‎ -idiāre (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /festejˈjare/

Verb edit

*festidiāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

celebrate, party

Descendants edit

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: festeggiare
- Sicilian: fistijari
North Italian:
- Friulian: festezâ
- Piedmontese: festegé
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: festejar
  - → Spanish: festejar
- French: festoyer
- Occitan: festejar
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: festexar
- Galician: festexar
- Old Spanish: festear
- Portuguese: festejar

References edit

Alkire, Ti, Rosen, Carol (2010) Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction, University of Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 290
Meul, Claire. 2013. The fate of the -ID(I)- morpheme in the Central Dolomitic Ladin varieties of northern Italy: Variable conditioning of a morphological mechanism. In Cruschina, Silvio & Maiden, Martin & Smith, John Charles (eds.), The boundaries of pure morphology: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives, 68–95. Oxford University Press.