quirito
Latin
editAlternative forms
edit- cirītō (late)
Etymology
editUncertain, perhaps from Latin queror (“to complain”) through the form, though the phonetic and semantic developments are difficult to trace; alternatively, a variant of quirritāre (“to squeal like a pig”), from *quis, an onomatopoeic rendition of squeaking. An ancient folk etymology understood it as "to call for the help of the Quirites," the Roman constabulary. Compare the Frankish *krītan (“to cry out, scream, proclaim”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kʷiˈriː.toː/, [kʷɪˈriːt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwiˈri.to/, [kwiˈriːt̪o]
Verb
editquirītō (present infinitive quirītāre, perfect active quirītāvī, supine quirītātum); first conjugation
Conjugation
editDescendants
edit- ⇒ Sardinian: isbirridare, ilbirridare, isghirridare
- Vulgar Latin: *crītāre (disputed; see there for further descendants)
References
edit- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 509-10
- “quirito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quirito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers