Reconstruction:Latin/expanticare
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Latin
editEtymology
editFrom ex- + pantex, pantices (“guts, bowels, belly”) + -āre.
Verb
edit*expanticāre (Proto-Romance)
- burst (open), break open, cleave, rend (originally the belly? thus, disembowel or eviscerate?)
Descendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: spãntic, spãnticari
- Romanian: spinteca
- Italo-Romance:
- Neapolitan: spantecare (Calabrian), spandecà (Abruzzese)
- Padanian:
- Venetan: spantegar