Reconstruction:Latin/superculum
Latin
editEtymology
editPerhaps from superus (“higher, superior”) + -culus (diminutive ending).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edit*superculum (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: soperchio, superchio, soverchio
- → Middle French: supercle
- Sicilian: superchiu
- Italian: soperchio, superchio, soverchio
- Western Romance:
References
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*superculus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 439