languio
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Classical langueō, with a change in conjugation. Attested in the sixth century CE.[1]
Verb[edit]
languiō (present infinitive languīre, perfect active languīvī, supine languītum); fourth conjugation (Late Latin)
- to languish
Descendants[edit]
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: languire
- ⇒ slanguirsi (Ancona)
- Italian: languire
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: lambrire
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: languir
- French: languir
- → Middle English: languysshen
- English: languish
- Old French: languir
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: languir
- Spanish: languidecer
References[edit]
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “languēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 162
- ^ “languir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “llanguir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.