Catalan words from Latin
214 Catalan words with Latin in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages (page 2).
dia
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…
doble
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…
dolç
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…
dona
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…
donar
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…
dos
It is inherited from Latin duo (“two”), continued in its accusative forms, masculine ⟨duōs⟩ and feminine ⟨duās⟩. The same Latin word is Occitan dos, Spanish dos, French deux, Italian due and…
drap
It is inherited from Late Latin drappus (“cloth; rag”), a word not found in Classical Latin and first recorded in the 6th century. The same Late Latin word is Occitan drap, French drap, Italian…
dret
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”)…
dur
1. The word for carrying is inherited from Latin dūcō (“to lead, conduct”), which the Catalan dictionaries cite by its infinitive. Coromines notes that the Latin verb died out without popular…
enganyar
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…
ensenyar
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin īnsignō (“to mark, designate”), from Latin in- and signō (“to mark”), from signum (“sign, mark”). Coromines finds the Latin verb in the old glossaries with the…
era
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…
escoltar
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ascultō (“to listen”), a Vulgar Latin form of Latin auscultō (“to listen, listen to”) with the diphthong /au/ reduced to /a/. Medieval Latin texts record the…
fals
It is inherited from Latin falsus (“false, untrue”), properly the past participle of fallō (“to deceive”). The same Latin word is Occitan fals, French faux and Italian falso. Meyer-Lübke took…
fe
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…
febrer
It is inherited from Late Latin febrārius, the form without /u/ that Latin inscriptions already show, of februārius (“of February”). Coromines, Bruguera and the GDLC give the classical form as the…
fer
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…
fi
1. The word for the end is inherited from Latin fīnis (“boundary, limit; end”). The same Latin word is Occitan fin, French fin, Italian fine and Portuguese fim. The form Spanish fin is a…
finestra
It is inherited from Latin fenestra (“window”). The same Latin word is Italian finestra, French fenêtre, Occitan fenèstra, Romanian fereastră, Old Spanish finiestra and Portuguese fresta. The ⟨i⟩ of…
foc
It is inherited from Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”). In Classical Latin the word meant the domestic hearth; in Vulgar Latin it came to mean fire in general, the element. Coromines and Pascual…
fre
It is inherited from Latin frēnum (“bridle, bit”). The oldest record keeps the final /n/ in the spelling ⟨fren⟩. The same Latin word is Occitan fren, French frein, Spanish freno, Italian freno…
front
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…
fumar
It is inherited from Latin fūmō (“to emit smoke, to smoke”). Bruguera lists it among the derivatives of fum “smoke”. The Latin verb was made from fūmus (“smoke”), which de Vaan traces to…
genoll
It is inherited from Late Latin genuculum (“knee”), an altered form of Latin geniculum, diminutive of genū (“knee”). The same Late Latin word is Occitan genolh, French genou, Italian ginocchio…
gola
It is inherited from Old Catalan gola, which is inherited from Latin gula (“throat, gullet”). The same Latin word is Italian gola, French gueule, Romanian gură (“mouth”) and Portuguese gola. In…
graner
It is inherited from Latin grānārium (“granary”). The Latin word is formed from grānum (“grain”) and the suffix -ārium, and was used mostly in the plural. The GDLC instead treats the Catalan word as…
gras
It is inherited from Vulgar Latin grassus (“fat”), the Vulgar Latin form of classical crassus (“thick, fat”). DECat, Bruguera and the GDLC explain the voiced initial by the influence of the…
greu
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…
guatlla
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…
gust
It is borrowed from Latin gustus (“tasting; taste of a thing”), taken from the written language. The Latin word kept its vowel as in the written language in Catalan, Italian gusto and Spanish gusto…
home
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…
hoste
It is inherited from Old Catalan oste, which is inherited from Latin hospes (“host; guest”). The same Latin word is Occitan òste, French hôte, Spanish huésped, Italian ospite and Romanian oaspete…
llançar
It is inherited from Old Catalan lançar, which is inherited from Late Latin lanceō (“to wield a lance”), formed from lancea (“lance”). The GDLC derives it within Catalan from the noun llança. The…
llarg
It is inherited from Old Catalan larch, which is inherited from Latin largus (“abundant, considerable; generous”). In Vulgar Latin the adjective took the sense "wide" in some regions and "long" in…
llegum
It is inherited from Old Catalan legum, the medieval spelling, which is inherited from Latin legūmen (“pulse, leguminous plant”). The same Latin word is Occitan legum, Old French legun, Italian…
llengua
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…
llet
It is inherited from Old Catalan let, which is inherited from Vulgar Latin lacte (“milk”), the archaic and late form of the word that Classical Latin had as lac, genitive ⟨lactis⟩. The neuter…
lletuga
It is inherited from Latin lactūca (“lettuce”). The Latin word is derived from lac (“milk”) with an adjective suffix -ūcus; Varro and Pliny already explained the name by the milky juice of the…
llevar
It is inherited from Old Catalan levar, which is inherited from Latin levō (“to lighten; to raise; to relieve”). The Latin verb was made from levis (“light, not heavy”), the source of Catalan lleu…
lligar
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…
llit
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…
lloc
It is inherited from Old Catalan loc, which is inherited from Latin locus (“place”). The same Latin word is Occitan lòc, Old Occitan loc, Italian luogo and Romanian loc. Spanish kept its ablative as…
lluna
It is inherited from Old Catalan luna, which is inherited from Latin lūna (“moon”). The same Latin word is Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Italian luna, French lune and Romanian lună. The Latin word…
magre
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…
mal
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…
mar
It is inherited from Old Catalan mar, which is inherited from Latin mare (“sea”). The same Latin word is Occitan mar, Spanish mar, Portuguese mar, French mer, Italian mare and Romanian mare. The…
mas
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…
menar
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…
ment
In Coromines's view it is borrowed from Latin mēns (“mind”), a word of philosophy and high doctrine that outside Llull appears in the Middle Ages only in set phrases and adverbial locutions…
menys
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…
mes
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…
meu
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…
molt
It is inherited from Old Catalan molt, which is inherited from Latin multus (“much, many”), in its neuter multum for the adverb. The same Latin word is Occitan molt, Italian molto, Spanish mucho…
morir
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…
mort
1. The word for death is inherited from Old Catalan mort, which is inherited from Latin mors (“death”), continued in its accusative ⟨mortem⟩. It kept the feminine gender of the Latin noun. The same…
mosca
It is inherited from Latin musca (“fly”). The same Latin word is Occitan mosca, Spanish mosca, Portuguese mosca, Italian mosca, French mouche and Romanian muscă. The Latin word goes back to…
moscat
It is borrowed from Medieval Latin muscatus (“smelling of musk”), from Late Latin muscus (“musk”). Wiktionary calls it inherited from the Late Latin word. The GDLC and Bruguera say that the Latin…
mot
It is inherited from Latin muttum (“a mutter, a grunt”), a word of the spoken language used in phrases such as ⟨non muttum facere⟩, “not to open one's mouth, not to say a word”. The DCVB notes that…
mut
It is inherited from Old Catalan mut, which is inherited from Latin mūtus (“dumb, inarticulate”). The same Latin word is Occitan mut, Spanish mudo, Portuguese mudo, Italian muto and Romanian mut…
nau
It is inherited from Old Catalan nau, which is inherited from Latin nāvis (“ship”). The same Latin word is Occitan nau, Old French nef, Italian nave, Spanish nave and Romanian naie. Spanish and…