Reconstruction:Latin/fragula

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

From frāga +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfraɡola/

Noun

*frāgula f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

strawberry

Reconstruction notes

The lack of syncope suggests this is a relatively late formation.

Italian descendants were borrowed into local Medieval Latin as frāgula (attested from 1295).^[1]^[2]

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈfraɡola/	*/ˈfraɡolas/
oblique	*/ˈfraɡola/	*/ˈfraɡolas/

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: fraula
  Gallurese: fràula, fràgula
  
  Sicilian: fràgula
- Italian: fragola, fravola (see there for further descendants)
- Neapolitan: fravola
- Sicilian: fràgula, fravula, fraula
  - → Maltese: frawla
Western Romance of N. Italy:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: fròla, frègla, frèvla
  - Piedmontese: fròla
  - Romagnol: frègla, frèvla
- Friulian: freule
Western Romance:
- Catalan: fraula, fraura (Alghero)
- Emilian: fròla
- Friulian: fraule
- Piedmontese: fròla

References

“fraula” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fragum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 749

^ fragula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
^ http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/88/159345

[1] ragula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

[2] ttp://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/88/159345

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