Reconstruction:Latin/exsipidus

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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.

Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Classical insipidus, with a change in prefix to ex-.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

*exsipidus (feminine *exsipida, neuter *exsipidum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

  1. tasteless

Reconstruction notes[edit]

Descendants variably subject to a sound change that devoiced intervocalic stops, such as /d/, in the final syllable of proparoxytones.[1]

Descendants[edit]

  • Italian: scìpido (archaic), scipìto
  • Sicilian: scìpitu

References[edit]

  • scipito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  1. ^ Carlucci, Alessandro. 2017. Revisiting the history of Tuscan consonants: The type stùpito "stupid" (< stupĭdu(m)). Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie, 133 (2).