500s

Italian words from Latin words first recorded in the 6th century

3 Italian words inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 6th century, earliest Latin record first.

1. compagno

   507–511

   from Latin companio

   It is inherited from Late Latin compāniō (“companion”). Italian continues the nominative (Nocentini says the vocative), while the accusative gave compagnone. The Latin word is first found in the…

2. campagna

   538–594

   from Latin campania

   It is inherited from Late Latin campānia (“open country, plain”), a noun made from the plural of the adjective campāneus (“of the fields, of the plain”), which comes from Latin campus (“level…

3. zio

   560–636

   from Latin thius

   It is inherited from Late Latin thīus (“uncle”), from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos, “uncle”). Isidore of Seville, in the 6th–7th century, wrote of the Latin word “Tius Graecum est”, “tius is Greek”…

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