Reconstruction:Latin/pilucare

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From pilāre (“remove hair”) + an infix *-ūc-, perhaps by analogy with the synonym pair mandere : mandūcāre.

• IPA^(key): /peluˈkare/

*pilūcāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. remove parts from something

• *pilūcicāre

• ⇒ Catalan: espellugar (Pego)^[1]
• Occitan: pelugar

  Limousin: pludzoú

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pĭlūcare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 505