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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.
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Latin
Etymology
From ad (“to”) + capus ("head", later in Romance "end") + -āre (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
*accapāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- finish
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: akever, achever
- Bourguignon: aichevai
- Champenois: aichevir
- Middle French: achever
- Norman: ackever
- Walloon: atchver
- → Middle English: achieven, acheven
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: acabar
- Asturian: acabar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: acabar
- Spanish: acabar
- → Sardinian: acabbare, agabbare, accabbari
- → Sicilian: accabbari
References
- “acabar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.