Reconstruction:Latin/complire

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

From Classical complēre, with a change in verb class.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /komˈplire/

Verb

*complīre (Proto-Romance)

finish, complete

Reconstruction notes

3SG */ˈkomplet/ (> Portuguese cumpre, Sardinian lòmpidi) or */komˈplesket/ (> Italian compìsce, Old French complist, Romanian cumplește).

Derived terms

*accomplīre
- Catalan: acomplir
- Old French: acomplir
- Occitan: acomplir

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: cumpli
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: compire
- Sicilian: chiumpiri
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: lompiri (Campidanese)
North Italian:
- Friulian: complî
- Piedmontese: conpì
- Romagnol: ciumpì
- Venetian: conpir
  - →? Friulian: compî
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: complir
- Franco-Provençal: compli, camplli
- Old French: complir
  - Middle French: complir
    - → English: comply, complish
- Occitan: complir
Ibero-Romance: (with conservative outcomes of /pl-/)
- Aragonese: complir, cumplir, cumpllir
- Asturian: cumplir
- Old Galician-Portuguese: comprir
  - Galician: cumprir, comprir
  - Portuguese: cumprir
- Old Spanish: cumplir, complir
  - Spanish: cumplir

References

Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 167
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “complere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 981

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