300–201 BC

Catalan words from Latin words first recorded in the 3rd century BC

95 Catalan words inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 3rd century BC, earliest Latin record first (page 2).

llit
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin lectus

It is inherited from Old Catalan lit, inherited from Latin lectus (“bed, couch”). The same Latin word is Occitan lèit, French lit, Spanish lecho, Italian letto and Portuguese leito. The REW notes…
magre
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin macer

It is inherited from Latin macer (“thin, lean”). The same Latin word is Occitan magre, French maigre, Italian magro, Spanish magro, Portuguese magro and Romanian macru. De Vaan traces ⟨macer⟩ to…
mes
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin mensis

1. The word for the month is inherited from Old Catalan mes, which is inherited from Latin mēnsis (“month”). Coromines gives the Vulgar Latin form ⟨mēse⟩ as its immediate source. The same Latin word…
negar
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin nego

1. The verb for denying is inherited from Old Catalan negar, which is inherited from Latin negō (“to say no, deny; to refuse”). It is common to all the western Romance languages: Spanish negar…
ombra
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin umbra

It is inherited from Old Catalan ombra, which is inherited from Latin umbra (“shadow, shade”), a word continued in all the Romance languages. The same Latin word is Italian ombra, French ombre…
pau
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin pax

1. The word for peace is inherited from Old Catalan pau, which is inherited from Latin pax (“peace”). The same Latin word is Occitan patz, French paix, Spanish paz, Italian pace and Romanian pace…
peix
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin piscis

It is inherited from Latin piscis (“fish”). The same Latin word is Occitan peis, Spanish pez, Portuguese peixe, Italian pesce and Romanian pește; French replaced it with the diminutive French…
pell
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin pellis

It is inherited from Old Catalan peyl, which is inherited from Latin pellis (“skin, hide”). The same Latin word is Occitan pèl, French peau, Italian pelle, Spanish piel, Portuguese pele and Romanian…
percebre
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin percipio

It is inherited from Latin percipiō (“to seize; to receive; to perceive”). The same Latin verb is Romanian pricepe, French percevoir, Occitan percebre, Spanish percibir and Portuguese perceber. The…
perill
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin periculum

It is inherited from Old Catalan perill, which is inherited from Latin perīculum (“trial, test; danger”), through the syncopated form periclum. The short form is regular in the comic poets and…
pes
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin pensum

It is inherited from Old Catalan pes, which is inherited from Latin pēnsum (“a weight of wool given to be spun”), the neuter of the past participle of pendō (“to weigh”). Coromines thinks the word…
plaure
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin placeo

It is inherited from Old Catalan plaer, which is inherited from Latin placeō (“to be pleasing”). Like voler, valer and saber it was at first a verb with an infinitive in ⟨-er⟩; the modern infinitive…
porc
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin porcus

It is inherited from Old Catalan porc, which is inherited from Latin porcus (“pig”). The same Latin word is Occitan pòrc, French porc, Italian porco, Romanian porc, Spanish puerco and Portuguese…
quatre
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin quattuor

It is inherited from Latin quattuor (“four”). The same Latin word is Old Occitan quatre, French quatre, Spanish cuatro, Italian quattro and Romanian patru. The Latin word goes back to *kʷettwōr…
raig
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin radius

It is inherited from Old Catalan raig, which is inherited from Latin radius (“staff; spoke of a wheel; ray of light”). It is a doublet of radi, borrowed from the same Latin word. The same Latin word…
ros
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin ros

1. The word for dew is inherited from Latin rōs (“dew”). The Latin noun, genitive ⟨rōris⟩, was treated like a neuter, as other monosyllables were, which explains why the Romance word continues the…
saltar
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin salto

It is inherited from Old Catalan saltar, which is inherited from Latin saltō (“to dance”), the frequentative of saliō (“to jump”). In Latin the verb meant "to dance", and sometimes "to hop, frisk"…
sang
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin sanguis

It is inherited from Old Catalan sanc, which is inherited from Latin sanguis (“blood”). The same Latin word is Occitan sang, French sang, Italian sangue, Portuguese sangue, Romanian sânge and…
sentir
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin sentio

It is inherited from Old Catalan sentir, which is inherited from Latin sentiō (“to perceive by the senses; to realise; to think”). The same Latin word is Spanish sentir, Portuguese sentir, Occitan…
set
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin septem

1. The word for seven is inherited from Latin septem (“seven”). The same Latin word is Occitan sèt, Spanish siete, Portuguese sete, Italian sette, French sept and Romanian șapte. The Latin numeral…
sort
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin sors

It is inherited from Old Catalan sort, which is inherited from Latin sors (“lot; fate”). The same Latin word is Italian sorte, French sort, Occitan sòrt, Spanish suerte, Portuguese sorte and…
tal
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin talis

It is inherited from Old Catalan tal, which is inherited from Latin tālis (“of such a kind”). The same Latin word is Occitan tal, French tel, Spanish tal, Italian tale, Portuguese tal and Romanian…
taula
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin tabula

It is inherited from Latin tabula (“board, plank; writing tablet”), which in Catalan took the place of mensa (“table”). The same Latin word is Old Occitan taula, French table, Italian tavola…
tela
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin tela

It is inherited from Old Catalan tela, which is inherited from Latin tēla (“cloth, web”). The Latin noun is an old derivative of texō (“to weave”), through a form ⟨texla⟩. Wiktionary gives the…
tendre
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin tener

It is inherited from Old Catalan tendre, earlier tenre, which is inherited from Latin tener (“soft, tender, delicate”). The /d/ between /n/ and /r/ is a later insertion: the older form ⟨tenre⟩ lacks…
vinya
205 BC–184 BC

from Latin vinea

It is inherited from Old Catalan vinya, which is inherited from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”). Coromines notes that the word was in general use in every period and is common to all the Romance…
front
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin frons

It is inherited from Latin frōns (“forehead, brow; front”). The same Latin word is Occitan front, French front, Spanish frente, Italian fronte, Portuguese fronte and Romanian frunte. The troubadours…
ou
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin ovum

It is inherited from Latin ōvum (“egg”). All the Romance languages point to a popular form with an open vowel, *ŏvum, and the Catalan word too has open /ɔ/. The same Latin word is Occitan uòu…
pi
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin pinus

It is inherited from Old Catalan pin, the form of the first record, which is inherited from Latin pīnus (“pine tree”). The same Latin word is Occitan pin, French pin, Italian pino, Spanish pino and…
pols
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin pulsus

1. The word for the pulse is inherited from Latin pulsus (“a push, blow”), the action noun of pellō (“to push, drive”). The Latin noun came to mean the beat of the arteries, and the Catalan word…
pont
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin pons

It is inherited from Latin pōns (“bridge”), through its accusative. The same Latin word is Occitan pònt, Spanish puente, French pont, Italian ponte, Portuguese ponte and Romanian punte. Unlike…
quant
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin quantus

It is inherited from Old Catalan quant, which is inherited from Latin quantus (“how great, how much”). The same Latin word is Occitan quant, Spanish cuanto, Italian quanto, Portuguese quanto and…
sobrar
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin supero

It is inherited from Latin superō (“to rise above, surpass, overcome”). The Latin verb is formed from super (“above”). The learned superar is a doublet of it. The same Latin verb is Romanian supăra…
vent
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin ventus

It is inherited from Old Catalan vent, which is inherited from Latin ventus (“wind”). The same Latin word is Italian vento, French vent, Occitan vent, Spanish viento, Portuguese vento and Romanian…
vetllar
204 BC–169 BC

from Latin vigilo

It is inherited from Old Catalan vetlar, which is inherited from Latin vigilō (“to stay awake, keep watch”). The learned doublet vigilar was borrowed from the same Latin verb and is recorded from…

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