Reconstruction:Latin/basto
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Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Possibly from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to carry, bear (weight)”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*bastō (present infinitive *bastāre, perfect active *bastāvī, supine *bastātum); first conjugation[1] (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- be enough or sufficient
- to carry, support
Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: bastar
- Italian: bastare
- → French: baster
- Old French: baster
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Old Occitan: bastar
- Old Spanish: bastar
- Spanish: bastar
- Sicilian: abbastari, vastari (scn)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*bastō m (oblique *bastōnem); third declension (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: bastó
- Italian: bastone
- Old French: baston
- French: bâton (see there for further descendants)
- Padanian:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: baston
- Sicilian: vastuni
- Spanish: bastón, vástago
- → Pontic Greek: μπαστόν (bastón)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Coromines, Joan (1961) “BASTAR”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 89