Reconstruction:Latin/torcere
Latin
editEtymology
editReassignment of Classical torquēre to the third conjugation.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*torcere (Proto-Romance)
- to twist
Reconstruction notes
editThe unrounding of the original (Classical Latin) /kʷ/ presumably started in the new conjugations *torquō (“I twist”) and *torquunt (“they twist”), with the following rounded vowels prompting the regular dissimilation /kʷ/ > /k/. Subsequently, /k/ spread to the other conjugations via analogy.
Derived terms
edit- *extorcere
- *intorcere
Descendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
edit- Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 95
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tŏrquēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 98