Catalan words first recorded in the 11th century

It is inherited from Old Catalan no, which is inherited from Latin nōn (“not”). The same Latin word is Spanish no, Italian non, French non, Portuguese não, Romanian nu and Occitan non. The Latin…

It is inherited from Latin demandō (“to entrust, commit; to demand”). Bruguera treats it in the article on manar, of the same Latin family. The same Latin verb is French demander, Italian domandare…

It is inherited from Latin caballus (“nag, work horse”), a word that sometimes meant a worn-out or working horse and sometimes a gelding, and that began in Vulgar Latin to be used for any horse…

1. The verb meaning to do or make is inherited from Latin faciō (“to make, do”). Coromines explains that its infinitive ⟨facere⟩ was pronounced ⟨faere⟩ in quick speech in late Vulgar Latin, because…

It is inherited from Latin sē (“oneself, himself, herself, themselves”), the accusative of the Latin reflexive pronoun. Bruguera and the GDLC note that the Latin accusative was formed by analogy…

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…

It is inherited from Latin cōnsobrīnus (“cousin, child of a mother's sister”), altered in a way that is not fully explained. Coromines thinks the phrase ⟨consobrinus primus⟩ “first cousin” was…

It is inherited from Latin amplus (“wide, large”). The same Latin word is Italian ampio, French ample, Occitan ample, Spanish ancho and Portuguese ancho. The origin of the Latin adjective is…

It is inherited from Old Catalan teu, which is inherited from Latin tuus (“your, yours”), remade on the model of the first-person possessive meus (“my”). The DCVB writes the remade form as a Vulgar…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *captiō (“to try to catch”), which Coromines, Bruguera and the GDLC cite by its infinitive and derive from captus (“caught”), the past participle of capiō (“to…

It is inherited from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”), genitive ⟨carnis⟩; Wiktionary and the DCVB name the oblique form ⟨carnem⟩, ⟨carne⟩ as the one continued. The same Latin word is Occitan carn, Spanish…

It is inherited from Latin cellārium (“storeroom, larder”), formed from cella (“storeroom, chamber”) with the suffix of place -ārium. The same Latin word is French cellier, Old Occitan celier…

It is inherited from Old Catalan mas, which is inherited from Late Latin mānsum (“place of stay, dwelling”). The GDLC gives the Medieval Latin mansus (“place of residence”). The Latin noun is not…

It is inherited from Old Catalan enganar, which is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ingannō (“to mock, to make fun of”), a derivative of ganniō (“to yelp, to snarl”). Glosses of the 9th century, among…

It is inherited from Latin vacca (“cow”). The same Latin word is Occitan vaca, Spanish vaca, Portuguese vaca, French vache, Italian vacca and Romanian vacă. The origin of the Latin word is…

It is inherited from Old Catalan vi, also written ⟨vin⟩, which is inherited from Latin vīnum (“wine”). The Old Catalan variant ⟨vin⟩ and the plural ⟨vins⟩ keep the /n/ of the Latin word. The same…

It is inherited from Latin conveniō (“to come together; to agree; to suit”). In the archaic period the reduced variant Old Catalan covenir predominated. Bruguera classes the verb among the learned…

It is inherited from Old Catalan meu, which is inherited from Latin meus (“my, mine”). Coromines derives the possessive from the stem of the Latin oblique cases mihi and mē of Latin ego (“I”), and…

It is inherited from Old Catalan terra, which is inherited from Latin terra (“dry land, earth”). The same Latin word is Occitan tèrra, Spanish tierra, Portuguese terra, French terre, Italian terra…

It is inherited from Old Catalan dret, which is inherited from Vulgar Latin *drēctus, a contracted form of dīrēctus (“straight, direct”). The Latin word was the participle of dīrigō (“to direct”)…

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…

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…

It is inherited from Latin caelum (“sky, heaven”). The same Latin word is Occitan cèl, French ciel, Italian cielo, Spanish cielo, Portuguese céu and Romanian cer. The Latin word continues…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin tōttus (“whole, all”), an emphatic pronunciation of classical tōtus (“the whole of, all”). The form with ⟨tt⟩ underlies Occitan tot, French tout and Italian tutto…

It is inherited from Old Catalan tallar, also written ⟨taylar⟩, which is inherited from Late Latin taliō (“to cut”), a verb formed from Latin tālea (“a cutting for planting; a thin piece of wood”)…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum sīc, a compound of the demonstrative particle eccum (“here he is”) and sīc (“thus”). The DCVB writes the Vulgar Latin form ⟨*accu sīc⟩, with the variant of…

It is inherited from Latin adiūtō (“to help”), a frequentative of adiuvō (“to help”), which is formed from iuvō (“to help”). The same Latin verb is Occitan ajudar, Spanish ayudar, Portuguese ajudar…

It is inherited from Latin alter (“the other (of two)”). In Vulgar Latin it replaced alius (“other (of many)”), and in this sense it passed into all the Romance languages. The same Latin word is…

It is inherited from Latin annus (“year”). The medieval texts write it an and ayn beside the modern spelling. The same Latin word is Spanish año, Portuguese ano, Italian anno, French an, Occitan an…

1. The word for “dear, expensive” is inherited from Latin cārus (“dear, precious, esteemed”). The same Latin word is Occitan car, Spanish caro, Portuguese caro, Italian caro and French cher. The…

It is inherited from Old Catalan conóixer, which is inherited from Late Latin conōscō (“to know”), a reduced form of cognōscō (“to get to know”). The classical verb is formed from con- and the…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, the form of diēs (“day, daytime”) moved into the first declension. The DCVB derives it directly from the classical noun. The Vulgar Latin form prevailed in…

It is inherited from Latin duplus (“double, twofold”). The DCVB also allows a Vulgar Latin *duple, a cross of the Latin word with its relative duplex (“twofold”). The same Latin word is Italian…

It is inherited from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). The same Latin word is Occitan doç, French doux, Italian dolce, Portuguese doce, Spanish dulce and Romanian dulce. The Latin adjective had one form for…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin domna, the contracted form of Latin domina (“mistress, lady”). The DCVB gives the classical form as the source. The contracted form is recorded in Latin…

It is inherited from Latin dōnō (“to present, give as a gift”), a verb formed on dōnum (“gift”), which comes from dō (“to give”). In Late Latin it competed with the simpler verb because its forms…

1. The word for faith is inherited from Latin fidēs (“trust, faith; credit; a promise”). The same Latin word is Spanish fe, Portuguese fé, French foi, Italian fede and Occitan fe. The troubadours…

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *grevis, a Vulgar Latin form of Latin gravis (“heavy, grave”) whose vowel was changed under the influence of its opposite levis (“light”). Wiktionary notes that the…

It is inherited from Old Catalan home, the object case of the medieval noun whose subject case was hom; both are inherited from Latin homō (“human being, man”). Coromines explains that the old Latin…

It is inherited from Old Catalan lengua, which is inherited from Latin lingua (“tongue; language”). The same Latin word is Romanian limbă, Italian lingua, French langue, Occitan lenga, Spanish…

It is inherited from Old Catalan ligar, which is inherited from Latin ligō (“to fasten, bind”). The same Latin verb is Italian legare, French lier, Occitan liar, Spanish liar, Portuguese liar and…

It is inherited from Old Catalan mal. As an adjective it is inherited from Latin malus (“bad”). The noun is inherited from Latin malum (“evil, harm”), the neuter of the adjective used as a noun. The…

It is inherited from Old Catalan menar, which is inherited from Latin minō (“to drive animals”), a collateral active form of the deponent minārī (“to threaten”). The change of meaning came from the…

It is inherited from Latin minus (“less”), the neuter and adverb of minor (“smaller”), the comparative of parvus (“small”). The palatal /ɲ/ is unexpected from Latin ⟨minus⟩. The DCVB, the GDLC and…

It is inherited from Old Catalan morir, which is inherited from Latin morior (“to die”), in the Vulgar Latin active form ⟨morire⟩ that replaced the classical deponent infinitive ⟨mori⟩. Latin…

It is inherited from Old Catalan nom, inherited from Latin nōmen (“name”). Scholars have long discussed whether the Romance forms come from the accusative ⟨nomen⟩ or from ⟨*nomine⟩: in Coromines's…

It is inherited from Latin peccātum (“fault, error; sin”). The Latin noun is the neuter past participle of peccō (“to err, to sin”). The same Latin word is Italian peccato, French péché, Occitan…

It is inherited from Late Latin perdōnō (“to give up entirely; to forgive”), recorded in the Latin Aesop and continued in all the Romance languages of the West. The GDLC explains it as “to give…

It is inherited from Old Catalan perdre, which is inherited from Latin perdō (“to destroy; to lose”), from the infinitive ⟨perdere⟩. The same Latin verb is Old Occitan perdre, French perdre, Spanish…

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…

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…

It is inherited from Old Catalan poder, inherited from Vulgar Latin potēre, the regular infinitive that spoken Latin made to replace classical posse. Wiktionary notes that ⟨potēre⟩ is attested…

It is inherited from Old Catalan preu, which is inherited from Latin pretium (“price, value; reward”). The same Latin word is Romanian preț, Italian prezzo and Old Occitan pretz; Spanish precio and…

1. The word for the relative pronoun is inherited from Latin quem (“whom, which”), the masculine accusative of the relative quī (“who, which”). The DCVB names both quid and the accusative as its…

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…

It is inherited from Old Catalan setmana, inherited from Late Latin septimāna (“week”). The Late Latin noun was derived from the adjective septimānus (“of the seventh”), from septimus (“seventh”)…

It is inherited from Latin teneō (“to hold, keep”), which passed from the second conjugation to the verbs in ⟨-ir⟩. Wiktionary places the change in Early Medieval Latin. Most Romance languages kept…

It is inherited from Latin ūnus (“one”). At first only a numeral, it also became the indefinite article, with the plurals ⟨uns⟩ and ⟨unes⟩, as in all the Romance languages. The same Latin word is…