Reconstruction:Latin/sapere

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

Reassignment of Classical sapĕre (“be wise, taste”) to the second conjugation.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /saˈpere/

Verb

*sapēre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

know
taste

Derived terms

*sapūtus

Descendants

Dalmatian:
- sapro, sapar, sapuor, sapur
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: sapè
- Italian: sapere
  - → Sardinian:
    - Campidanese: sapiri
    - Logudorese: sapere
- Laziale: sapì
- Neapolitan: sapè
- Sicilian: sapiri
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: savì, savei, savé
  - Ligurian: savéi
  - Lombard: savei, savè, saì
  - Piedmontese: savej
- Friulian: savê
- Istriot: savì
- Romansch: savair, saver, saveir
- Venetian: saver
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: saber, sabre, sebre
- Franco-Provençal: savêr, chair (Valaisan), saveir, saer, saeir (Valdôtain)
- Old French: savoir (see there for further descendants)
- Gascon: sàber, assàber; assaber
- Occitan: saber (several dialects)
  Auvergnat: sabre
  
  Languedocien: saupre
  
  Limousin: saubre, sapcher
  
  Provençal: saupre, sacher
  
  Vivaro-Alpine: saupre
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: saber, saper (central), sabre (Ribagorçan)
- Asturian: saber
- Galician: saber
- Portuguese: saber
- Spanish: saber
  - → English: savvy (via a Romance-based creole or pidgin)
  - → Ido: savar
  - → Sabir: sabir

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