Reconstruction:Latin/minutiare
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom minūtus + -iāre (causative verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*minūtiāre (Proto-Romance)
Reconstruction notes
editVarious descendants have taken on the prefix ex- or dis-.
Descendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: minuzzare (archaic), sminuzzare
- Sicilian: munuzzari
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
- Old Spanish: menuzar
- Spanish: desmenuzar
- → Catalan: desmenussar
- Spanish: desmenuzar
References
edit- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*mĭnūtiare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 410
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĭnūtiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 134