adimpero
Latin
editEtymology
editAttested in various early documents from the Occitan and Catalan zone.[1] Perhaps the earliest attestation, albeit indirectly via the derived noun adimperamentum, dates to 887 CE.[2] Appears to have left no descendants outside of the aforementioned region.
Verb
editadimperō (present infinitive adimperāre, perfect active adimperāvī, supine adimperātum); first conjugation (Early Medieval Latin)
- to order
Conjugation
editDescendants
edit- Old Catalan: aemprar, emprar, amprar
- Old Occitan: ademprar, azemprar, aremprar, adzemprar
- Occitan: asemprar
References
edit- adimperare in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*adimperare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 142
- ^ Balari y Jovany, Jose. [1899] 1964. Orígenes históricos de Cataluña. San Cugat del Vallés: Instituto internacional de cultura románica. Page 508.