facistol

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *faldiz
Frankish *faldi
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los
Proto-Germanic *stōlaz
Frankish *stōl
Frankish *faldistōlbor.
Old Occitan faldestolbor.
Old Galician-Portuguese cacistalinflu.
Spanish facistol

    Borrowed from Old Occitan faldestol (“lectern”), from Frankish *faldistōl (“folding chair”). Change from /ld/ to /θ/ can be explained by influence from Old Galician-Portuguese cacistal (“candlestick”), whence modern Portuguese castiçal.[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    facistol m (plural facistoles)

    1. lectern
    2. (obsolete) faldstool

    References

    1. ^ Coromines, Joan (1961), “facistol”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 265

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