Reconstruction:Latin/admordium
Latin
Etymology
From admordeō (“to bite into”).
Noun
*admordium (Proto-Ibero-Romance)
Descendants
- Old Galician-Portuguese: *almorço
- Old Leonese:
- Mirandese: almuorço
- Old Spanish: almuerço
- Spanish: almuerzo
References
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “182. *admordium”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 13
- Joan Coromines; José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984), “almuerzo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 204
- Machado, José Pedro (1995), “almoço”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa [Etymological dictionary of the Portuguese language] (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 208, column 1