Reconstruction:Latin/verruculum

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 vericulum (“little rod”), with the ending changed to -uculum and with /rr/ taken from ferrum (“iron”). The first change is attested via Late Latin veruclātus (“locked, bolted”, found in Augustine), implying a derived verb *veruculāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /verˈroklu/

Noun

*verruculum (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

  1. bolt (metal bar for keeping something closed)

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: verrocchio, verocchio (Versilia)
  • Gallo-Italic:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: verroil
    • Old French: verroil
      • Middle French: verrouil
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: borroll (Pallarés)
    • Occitan: varrolh (most dialects, influenced by *barra)
      Gascon: vorrolh, vorrelh
      Limousin: verruelh
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: aberruyu, alberruyu
    • Aragonese: birol (Belsetán)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: verrolho
    • Old Spanish: berrojo
      • Spanish: berrojo (dialectal)

Forms influenced by descendants of ferrum (“iron”):

  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: frogio
    • Piedmontese:
      Eastern: frocc, frucc
      Northern: foregg, frugg
      Western: froj
    • Romagnol: fròcc
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: ferroil
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: ferroll, forroll, farroll, ⇒ forrollat, ferrollat, forrellac, foriac
    • Occitan:
      Auvergnat: farrolh, ferrolh
      Languedocien: ferrolh
      Provençal: ferrolh
      Vivaro-Alpine: ferrolh
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese:
      Ansotano: forrullo
      Benasqués: farroll
    • Asturian: ferroyu
    • Galician: ferrollo
    • Portuguese: ferrolho, ferruolho (Minhoto)
    • Spanish: herrojo

Forms influenced by descendants of serare (“to bolt”):

  • Aragonese: cerrollo, zerrullo
  • Spanish: cerrojo

References

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