Reconstruction:Latin/fluruncum

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

Etymology

Metathesized from furunculus, perhaps thanks to a folk-etymology relating it to flōrem (“flower”), imagining abscesses as flowers blossoming on one's skin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /floˈronku/

Noun

*fluruncus m (Proto-Western-Romance)

1. inflammatory tumor, boil

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/floˈronkos/	?
oblique	*/floˈronku/	*/floˈronkos/

Descendants

• North Italian:
  • Piedmontese: fioron, fioronc
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: floronc, floronco
  • Franco-Provençal: fluron
  • Gascon: hloronc, ehloronc, esloronc, holoronc
  • Occitan: floronc (several dialects)

    Provençal: fleironc, flaironc (probably influenced by derivatives of flagrāre)

  • Poitevin-Saintongeais: flleuron
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: floronco, florongo, florunco

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 685: “il foruncolo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• “floronc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “furoncle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŭrŭnculus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 912