Reconstruction:Latin/rosicare

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 rōsus (“gnawed”) +‎ -icāre (frequentative verb-forming suffix), the former being the past participle of rōdere (“gnaw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roseˈkare/

Verb

*rōsicāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. gnaw

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: rosicare
  • Neapolitan: rusecare
  • Sicilian: rusicari
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: rosgà, rosghè, roschè
    • Ligurian: rozigiâ, rogijâ, rozegâ
    • Lombard: rosegà, rosiär
    • Piedmontese: rusié, aurziè, arzujè, arzié, rosighé
    • Romagnol: rosghè
  • Friulian: roseâ
  • Venetian: roxegar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: rosegar, roegar
  • Old Occitan: rosegar, rozegar
    • Occitan: rosegar (several dialects)

      Limousin: rosjar

      Provençal: roegar, roeigar, roigar, rosigar

      Vivaro-Alpine: roïgar, rosigar

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: rosigar, arrosigar

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*rosicare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 553