ascia

See also: ascià

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ʃa/
• Rhymes: -aʃʃa
• Hyphenation: à‧scia

Etymology 1

From Latin ascia (“axe”).

Noun

ascia f (plural asce)

1. axe, adze

   Synonyms: scure, mannaia

See also

• maestro d'ascia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ascia

1. inflection of asciare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Related terms

• asciata

Latin

Etymology

According to one version, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷs-ih₂- (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) (see axe).

According to De Vaan, it is not plausible since a sequence *ks is usually retained in intervocalic Latin, which implies borrowing from an unidentified source. It is possible that the consonant cluster underwent metathesis in a different (IE?) language before the word entered Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈas.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaʃ.ʃi.a]

Noun

ascia f (genitive asciae); first declension

1. an axe
2. a mason's trowel

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ascia	asciae
genitive	asciae	asciārum
dative	asciae	asciīs
accusative	asciam	asciās
ablative	asciā	asciīs
vocative	ascia	asciae

Synonyms

• (axe): secūris

Derived terms

• *asciāta
• ascicula
• asciola
• ascio

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ascia
  • Sicilian: ascia
• North-Italian:
  • Venetan: assa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: aixa
    • →? Spanish: aja
  • Old French: aisse
    • French: asse ⇒ aissette, essette, asseau
• Ibero-Romance:
  • >? Portuguese: archa
• ⇒ Late Latin: asciola (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *asciāta
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: ixata, aixata, xata, ixada, xada, axada, axau
    • Catalan: aixada, eixada, xada
    • Occitan: aissada (Lengadocian and Limousin)
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: axada, xada, ixá, eixada
    • Galician: aixada, anxada, eixada, enxada, xada
    • Portuguese: enxada, aixada, eixada (Trás-os-Montes), inxada (dialectal)
    • Spanish: azada

References

• “ascia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ascia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ascia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ascia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ascia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN