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Catalan words first recorded in the 14th century

5 Catalan words whose earliest known written record dates from the 14th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. ranci

    1305–1310

    It is inherited from Latin rancidus (“rotten, rancid”). The expected outcome of the Latin forms was a masculine ⟨rànceu⟩ and a feminine ⟨rància⟩; because the feminine was the commoner form (of…

  2. guatlla

    1330

    It is inherited from Old Catalan guatla, the medieval spelling, which is inherited from Vulgar Latin *quacla, a contracted form of Late Latin quaccola (“quail”). The DCVB starts from a Latin…

  3. ràbia

    1344

    It is inherited from Vulgar Latin rabia, the Vulgar Latin form of Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness”). Wiktionary derives the Latin noun from rabiō (“to rave”). The same Latin word is Italian rabbia…

  4. era

    1375–1399

    1. The word for an era is borrowed from Late Latin aera (“number, figure; era”), originally the plural of aes (“bronze; money; amount”). In Latin the sense of a date from which years are counted…

  5. ahir

    1400–1499

    It is formed from Old Catalan a- + hir (“yesterday”), with the a- that also appears in avui, així, ací, allí and aviat. Coromines sees in it the emphasis speakers give to words of time and place…

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