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Reconstruction:Latin/exsipidus

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Classical insipidus, with a change in prefix to ex-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ekˈsepedos/

Adjective

*exsipidus (feminine *exsipida, neuter *exsipidum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

  1. tasteless

Reconstruction notes

Descendants variably subject to a sound change that devoiced intervocalic stops, such as /d/, in the final syllable of proparoxytones.[1]

Descendants
  • Italian: scìpido (archaic), scipìto
  • Sicilian: scìpitu

References
  • scipito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  1. Carlucci, Alessandro. 2017. Revisiting the history of Tuscan consonants: The type stùpito "stupid" (< stupĭdu(m)). Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie, 133 (2).
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