Reconstruction:Latin/crepantare

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 crepō +‎ *-antāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krepanˈtare/

Verb

*crepantāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. (transitive) to make something burst

Reconstruction notes

Metathesis of the first two vowels is common in Italy.

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Neapolitan: crepantare, crepantà; cripintare; scrapentare
  • Sicilian: scripintari, scrapintari
• North Italian:
  • Lombard: craventà, creventà, creentà
  • Venetian: scraventar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: crebantar
  • Old French: crevanter, cravanter, graventer, craventer
    • Middle French: cravanter, gravanter, grevanter
    • Picard: cravanter
    • Walloon: crévinter
  • Old Occitan: crebantar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Portuguese: quebrantar
  • Old Spanish: crebantar, quebrantar
    • Spanish: quebrantar

References

• Riccio, Giovanna (2005) Ispanismi nel dialetto napoletano, Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 99^[1]
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*crĕpantāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1316