Reconstruction:Latin/porcile
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From porc- (“pig”) + -īle (“place for keeping”). Displaced Classical Latin suīle. Eventually surfaces as Medieval Latin porcīle in the 13th century, by this point a borrowing from Romance.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
*porcīle m (plural *porcīlēs) (Proto-Romance)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pŏrcīle”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 188