Reconstruction:Latin/crepantare

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

Etymology

From crepō +‎ *-antāre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /krepanˈtare/

Verb

*crepantāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

(transitive) to make something burst

Reconstruction notes

Metathesis of the first two vowels is common in Italy.

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Neapolitan: crepantare, crepantà; cripintare; scrapentare
- Sicilian: scripintari, scrapintari
North Italian:
- Lombard: craventà, creventà, creentà
- Venetian: scraventar
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: crebantar
- Old French: crevanter, cravanter, graventer, craventer
  - Middle French: cravanter, gravanter, grevanter
  - Picard: cravanter
  - Walloon: crévinter
- Old Occitan: crebantar
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
  - Portuguese: quebrantar
- Old Spanish: crebantar, quebrantar
  - Spanish: quebrantar

References

Riccio, Giovanna (2005) Ispanismi nel dialetto napoletano, Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 99
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*crĕpantāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1316

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