Reconstruction:Latin/porcile
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom porc- (“pig”) + -īle (“place for keeping”). Displaced Classical Latin suīle. Eventually surfaces as Medieval Latin porcīle in the 13th century, by this point a borrowing from Romance.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit*porcīle m (plural *porcīlēs) (Proto-Romance)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pŏrcīle”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 188