Reconstruction:Latin/rosicare
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom rōsus (“gnawed”) + -icāre (frequentative verb-forming suffix), the former being the past participle of rōdere (“gnaw”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*rōsicāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
edit- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*rosicare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 553