Reconstruction:Latin/volvitare
Latin edit
Alternative reconstructions edit
Etymology edit
From *volvitus (“spun”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix), with early loss of unstressed /ĭ/. The form *volvitus would represent a 'vulgar' past participle for Latin volvere (“to spin”).
Alternatively a direct phonetic development from the Classical frequentative volūtāre (> *vol(ŭ)tāre). It would be somewhat unusual, as this type of unstressed vowel reduction in the second syllable of tetrasyllabic paroxytones is generally counteracted in verbs due to analogy with proparoxytonic inflections (e.g. Latin volū́tat 'he rolls').
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*volvitāre (Proto-Romance)
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References edit
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*vŏlvĭtāre, *vŏltāre”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 722
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*vŏlvĭtare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 14: U–Z, page 627