500–401 BC

Aromanian words from Latin words first recorded in the 5th century BC

19 Aromanian words inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 5th century BC, earliest Latin record first.

am
451 BC–450 BC

from Latin habeo

1. The verb “to have” is inherited from Latin habeō (“to have, hold”). Wiktionary notes that the 1st person form and some others may be analogical, built on an old form of the 1st person plural, or…
io
451 BC–450 BC

from Latin eo

It is inherited from Late Latin eo (“I”), the Late Latin form of Latin egō (“I”), the etymon DDA also gives. Candrea and Densusianu call the loss of the g unexplained. The object forms have their…
limbã
451 BC–450 BC

from Latin lingua

It is inherited from Latin lingua (“tongue; language”), from Old Latin dingua. De Vaan traces it to Proto-Italic *dn̥χ(u)wā- and Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”); Wiktionary explains the…
ma
451 BC–450 BC

from Latin magis

1. The adverb ma “more” is inherited from Latin magis (“more”), a derivative of magnus (“great”); de Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *magis (“greater”) and Proto-Indo-European *mǵ-i(V)s- (“greater”)…
om
451 BC–450 BC

from Latin homo

It is inherited from Latin homō (“human being, man”), and its plural continues the Latin plural hominēs. The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian om, Megleno-Romanian uom…
or
451 BC–450 BC

from Latin oro

It is inherited from Latin ōrō (“to plead, speak; to pray”), as Pascu and Papahagi both state. De Vaan takes pleading and speaking openly as the original sense of the Latin verb and explains it as a…
un
451 BC–450 BC

from Latin unus

It is inherited from Latin ūnus (“one”), with the feminine from ūna. De Vaan traces Latin ūnus, Old Latin oino, to Proto-Italic *oino- and Proto-Indo-European *Hoi-no- (“one”), the source also of…
cap
450 BC

from Latin caput

It is inherited from Latin caput (“head”). Wiktionary derives it through a by-form, Vulgar Latin capus; the OLD records capus for caput in an inscription. Candrea and Densusianu note that the…
cu
450 BC

from Latin cum

It is inherited from Latin cum (“with”). Wiktionary traces the Latin preposition through Old Latin com to Proto-Italic *kom and Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with”); the Oxford Latin…
cãndu
450 BC

from Latin quando

It is inherited from Latin quandō (“when”). The Oxford Latin Dictionary analyses the Latin word as quam (“how, as”) with the particle seen in dōnec (“until”), and compares Sanskrit कदा (kadā́…
deadun
450 BC

from Latin de

It is inherited from Latin dē (“from, of”) + ad (“to”) + ūnum (“one”), as Papahagi and Meyer derive it.
di
450 BC

from Latin de

It is inherited from Latin dē (“from, down from, concerning”). In Latin it was a preposition with the ablative marking removal from a place, away from or down from. Wiktionary traces it to…
lungu
450 BC

from Latin longus

It is inherited from Latin longus (“long”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *dlongo- and Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰ-o-, and compares Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (laggs) and Old High German lang. The word is…
nitsi
450 BC

from Latin neque

It is inherited from Latin neque (“and not, nor”), which Latin formed from the negation ne- (“not”) and the enclitic -que (“and”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *nekʷe (“and not”) and traces the…
nãs
450 BC

from Latin ipse

It is inherited from Latin ipse (“himself, herself, itself”), in its form ipsus, which de Vaan records for the nominative in early Latin. Nikolaidis, after Miklosich, already traced it to ipse…
parti
450 BC

from Latin pars

It is inherited from Latin pars (“part, piece”), as Nikolaidis already saw. De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *parti- (“part”) and, following Schrijver, explains it as a pre-Latin formation from the…
pri
450 BC

from Latin per

1. The preposition is inherited from Latin per (“through, across”). It is the same word as Romanian pe (older pre), Megleno-Romanian pri and Istro-Romanian pre; Pușcariu and Candrea–Densusianu set…
prit
450 BC

from Latin per

It is inherited from Latin per (“through, across”) with intrō (“inside, within”): Papahagi derives it from these two Latin words, and Pascu files it among the Latin elements of Aromanian. Cunia…
voi
450 BC

from Latin vos

It is inherited from Latin vōs (“you (plural)”), with a final -i added, as Pascu explains it; the long dative continues vōbīs (“to you”) and the short accusative continues vōs. In Latin, vōs is from…

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