Reconstruction:Latin/minutiare
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From minūtus + -iāre (causative verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*minūtiāre (Proto-Romance)
Reconstruction notes
[edit]Various descendants have taken on the prefix ex- or dis-.
Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: minuzzare (archaic), sminuzzare
- Sicilian: munuzzari
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
- Old Spanish: menuzar
- Spanish: desmenuzar
- → Catalan: desmenussar
- Spanish: desmenuzar
References
[edit]- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*mĭnūtiare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 410
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĭnūtiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 134