Reconstruction:Latin/impinctum

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

Alternative past participle for impingō, instead of the Classical participle impāctus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /emˈpeŋtu/

Participle

*impinctus (feminine *impincta, neuter *impinctum); first/second-declension participle (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

pushed, shoved

Related terms

*expinctum

Reconstruction notes

The feminine has yielded several nouns in Romance.

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: pimtu
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: impinto, impinta
- Sicilian: mpintu, mpinciutu
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: impinte (Aosta), empeinta (Lyon)
- Old French: empeinte, empainte
  - Picard: empaint
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: empent
  - Catalan: empenta ⇒ semptenta
- Occitan: empint, empench
  Provençal: empencha
  
  Vivaro-Alpine: empencha
- → Spanish: empenta
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: empenta ⇒ empentón ⇒ empentonada

References

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “empellón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 577
“empenta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭmpĭngĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 589

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