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Reconstruction:Latin/linguaticum

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 lingua (“tongue, language”) +‎ -āticum (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lenˈɡʷad͡ʒo/

Noun

*linguāticum m (Proto-Gallo-Romance)

  1. manner of speaking, language

Reconstruction notes

Attested in mixed Franco-Occitan from ca. 1000 CE (Passion du Christ)[1] and Catalan from ca. 1270 (Llibre de contemplació).[2]

From Romance the term was borrowed into Medieval Latin as linguāgium (12th century?).[3]

Declension
singular plural
nominative */lenˈɡʷad͡ʒos/ */lenˈɡʷad͡ʒo/
oblique */lenˈɡʷad͡ʒo/ */lenˈɡʷad͡ʒos/

Descendants
  • Old Catalan: lenguatge
  • Franco-Provençal: lengâjo, lingazhou, lingâdzo
  • Old French: language (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: lenguatge, lengaje (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. “langage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  2. “llenguatge” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  3. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “linguagium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 614
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