percontor
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain, suggestions include:
- from contus (“stick, pole; plummet”), as if "to probe, to feel the depth with a (long) pole";
- from cūnctor (this appears semantically unconvincing and more likely simply influenced by it, as in the Vulgar Latin derivative below, but compare Japanese 掛ける); (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
- from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to ask”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /perˈkon.tor/, [pɛrˈkɔn̪t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /perˈkon.tor/, [perˈkɔn̪t̪or]
Verb[edit]
percontor (present infinitive percontārī or percontārier, perfect active percontātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Conjugation[edit]
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Old Sardinian: percontare, precontare, pregontare, pregontari
- Logudorese: pregontari
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *praecunctāre (see there for further descendants)
- →⇒ English: percontatorial
References[edit]
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “preguntar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 635
Further reading[edit]
- “percontor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “percontor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- percontor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.