allacto
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From ad- + lact- (“milk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Attested in Marcellus Empiricus.[1]
Verb edit
allactō (present infinitive allactāre, perfect active allactāvī, supine allactātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)
- to breastfeed (said of the mother)
Conjugation edit
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 53: “allattare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “allactare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 326