200–101 BC

Aromanian words from Latin words first recorded in the 2nd century BC

9 Aromanian words inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 2nd century BC, earliest Latin record first.

1. aryi

   195 BC–149 BC

   from Latin area

   It is inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”), as Meyer already saw in his edition of Kavalliotis. Romanian arie and Megleno-Romanian aryie have the same word. Further west it gave…

2. stringu

   195 BC–149 BC

   from Latin stringo

   It is inherited from Latin stringō (“to draw tight, bind”), as Pușcariu and Capidan also derive it. The verb is shared with Romanian strânge and Megleno-Romanian string. Further west the Latin verb…

3. cali

   170 BC–90 BC

   from Latin callis

   It is inherited from Latin callis (“rough track, path”), a Latin word for a rough track or mountain path. Its further origin is unclear: de Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *kalni- or *kalsi- with a…

4. casã

   166 BC–160 BC

   from Latin casa

   It is inherited from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”). The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian casă, Megleno-Romanian casă and Istro-Romanian cǫse. Further west it gave…

5. carti

   131 BC–103 BC

   from Latin charta

   It is inherited from Latin charta (“papyrus paper, a sheet of it”). Pascu explains the ending through the plural: Latin charta first gave a singular in -ã, and the singular in -e was then made from…

6. shcurtu

   131 BC–103 BC

   from Latin curtus

   It is inherited from Latin curtus (“cut short, mutilated”), or a Vulgar Latin *excurtus formed from it with the prefix ex-. Pascu explains the initial s by the influence of the verb for "to…

7. aflu

   116 BC–27 BC

   from Latin afflo

   It is inherited from Latin afflō (“to blow on”), from ad- (“to”) and flō (“to blow”). De Vaan derives the simple verb, with a question mark, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”). The sense…

8. aprir

   116 BC–27 BC

   from Latin Aprilis

   It is inherited from Latin Aprīlis (“April”). Candrea and Densusianu explain the Aromanian form from Aprīlis through the change of l to r; the variant april shows the dissimilation of the two r…

9. tatã

   116 BC–27 BC

   from Latin tata

   It is inherited from Latin tata (“dad, daddy”); Papahagi derives the plural from the Latin plural of the same word. Nikolaidis, too, derives the plural from medieval Latin, though he takes Latin…

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