Reconstruction:Latin/pulica

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

*pūlicōnem

Etymology

From pūlic- (“flea”) +‎ -a (feminine ending).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpuːleɡa/

Noun

*pūlica f (Proto-Western-Romance)

flea

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈpuːleɡa/	*/ˈpuːleɡas/
oblique	*/ˈpuːleɡa/	*/ˈpuːleɡas/

Descendants

North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: pulga, polga, pluga, pruga
  - Lombard: pulga
- Venetian: pułega
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: pulga
- Galician: pulga
- Portuguese: pulga
- Spanish: pulga
  - → Tagalog: pulgas
Italo-Romance:
- Sicilian: appulicari (ad + *pulica + -are)

References

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 474: “la pulce; le pulci” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “pulga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 685

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