Reconstruction:Latin/similiare
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom similis + -iāre. Compare Late Latin similāre.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*similiāre (present participle *similiantem) (Proto-Romance)
Derived terms
edit- *assimiliāre
- Italian: assomigliare
- Portuguese: assemelhar
- Spanish: asemejar
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: somigliare, simigliare (literary)
- Sicilian: simigghiari
- North Italian: (forms with /o/ perhaps infl. by Italian)
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old Occitan: semelhar
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: simizare
References
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*sĭmĭliare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 628