Reconstruction:Latin/torco

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

From *torquō, from Classical Latin torqueō.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɔrko/

Verb

*torcō (present infinitive *torcere, perfect active *torsī, supine *tortum or *torsum); third conjugation (Proto-Romance)

twist

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: torcu, toartsiri
- Romanian: toarce, toarcere
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: torcere
- Sicilian: tòrciri
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: torchere, torciri, trochere, dorchere
North Italian:
- Piedmontese: tòrze
- Venetian: tòrxer, tòrzer, tòrxar
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: tòrcer
- Occitan: tòrcer, torcir
- Old French: tortre, tuertre, tordre
  - French: tordre
  - Norman: teurtre (Jersey)
Ibero-Romance:
- Galician: torcer
- Portuguese: torcer
- Spanish: torcer

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “tŏrquēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 13: To–Tyrus, page 98

Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 95

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[1] Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 95