eccum
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- eccam (feminine)
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈek.kum/, [ˈɛkːʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈek.kum/, [ˈɛkːum]
Audio (Classical) (file)
ContractionEdit
eccum
Usage notesEdit
Became a remarkably productive deictic prefix in Proto-Romance; see below.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Italian: ecco ⇒ vecco (Tuscan) ⇒ vecchelo (Arezzo)
- Old Occitan: ec ⇒ vec, bec, beg, bet, beps
- Sardinian: eccu
ReferencesEdit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ecce”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 202
Further readingEdit
- “eccum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eccum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eccum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette