Reconstruction:Latin/impinctum

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

Alternative past participle for impingō, instead of the Classical participle impāctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emˈpeŋtu/

Participle

*impinctus (feminine *impincta, neuter *impinctum); first/second-declension participle (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. pushed, shoved

Related terms

• *expinctum

Reconstruction notes

The feminine has yielded several nouns in Romance.

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: pimtu
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: impinto, impinta
  • Sicilian: mpintu, mpinciutu
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: impinte (Aosta), empeinta (Lyon)
  • Old French: empeinte, empainte
    • Picard: empaint
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: empent
    • Catalan: empenta ⇒ semptenta
  • Occitan: empint, empench

    Provençal: empencha

    Vivaro-Alpine: empencha

  • → Spanish: empenta
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: empenta ⇒ empentón ⇒ empentonada

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “empellón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 577
• “empenta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭmpĭngĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 589