liquiritia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γλῠκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza), later reanalyzed as the root *liqu- pertaining to liquids (cfr. liqueo, liquor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”)) + the suffix -itia.

Noun

liquiritia f (genitive liquiritiae); first declension

1. liquorice

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: liquirizia

    Tuscan: regolizia, (rare) regolizio

  • Sicilian: rigulizzia

    Calabrese: virgorizza

• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: rigolìssia
    • Ligurian: regolìçia
    • Lombard: regolizia, regolizi
    • Piedmontese: argalìssia, rigolìssia
    • Romagnol: rigulìssia
  • Venetian: rigolìssia
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: règalisse, ègalisse
  • Old French: licoresse
    • French: réglisse
    • Norman: ricolisse
    • → Middle English: lycorys, licoresse, licorice, licoriȝs, licoris, licorys, licoryse, likorys, liquirice, lycoresse, lycorice
      • English: licorice, liquorice
      • Scots: liquorie
    • → German: Lakritz
      • → Estonian: lagrits
      • → Russian: лакрица (lakrica)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: regalèssia, regalíssia, regalissi, regalènsia
  • Occitan: regalícia

    Gascon: arregalícia

    Languedocien: regalécia

    Vivaro-Alpine: regalici

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: regalicia
  • Galician: regaliz, regaliza, regalicia
  • Spanish: regaliz
  • Portuguese: regaliz