Reconstruction:Latin/impinctum

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

Alternative past participle for impingō, instead of the Classical participle impāctus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /emˈpeŋtu/

Participle

*impinctus (feminine *impincta, neuter *impinctum); first/second-declension participle (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

  1. pushed, shoved

Reconstruction notes

The feminine has yielded several nouns in Romance.

Descendants

  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Aromanian: pimtu
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: impinte (Aosta), empeinta (Lyon)
    • Old French: empeinte, empainte
      • Picard: empaint
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Occitan: empint, empench
      Provençal: empencha
      Vivaro-Alpine: empencha
    • Old Catalan: empent
      • Catalan: empenta, ⇒ semptenta
        • → Spanish: empenta (or from Aragonese)
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: empenta, ⇒ empentón, ⇒ empentonada

References

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