focacium
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editNominalization of the neuter of ellipsis of (panis) focācius (“(bread) of the hearth”). Attested in the Vetus Itala.[1]
Noun
editfocācium n (genitive focāciī or focācī); second declension (Late Latin)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | focācium | focācia |
Genitive | focāciī focācī1 |
focāciōrum |
Dative | focāciō | focāciīs |
Accusative | focācium | focācia |
Ablative | focāciō | focāciīs |
Vocative | focācium | focācia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
edit(All via the plural focācia, made into a feminine noun.)
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- → Byzantine Greek: πογάτσα (pogátsa)
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1007: “la focaccia (la schiacciata)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŏcācium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 648