ec-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ec"
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ek]
Etymology 1
[edit]Related to Oscan 𐌄𐌊𐌊𐌖𐌌 (ekkum) via Proto-Italic; further etymology uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *é(y) or *h₁é + *(-)ḱe.[1]
May be apocopated or back-formed from ecce. An old hypothesis proposed *ed-ke underlying Latin ecce (in which case, all ec- may simply be *ed-) and *ed-ke-om underlying Oscan 𐌄𐌊𐌊𐌖𐌌 (ekkum), comparing the first element of Proto-Slavic *ed-ìnъ (“one”) and *ed(ъ)-và (“only”), which would point to Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ed-, but the latter is nowadays reconstructed as *h₁edʰ- in accordance with Winter's law. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Prefix
[edit]ec-
- prefixed to interrogatives, has intensive or indefinite force
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ecce”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 185
Further reading
[edit]- “ec-”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ec-” on page 584/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Pokorny, Julius (1959), “3. e-, ei-, i-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 282 and 284 of 281–287
Etymology 2
[edit]See ex-.
Prefix
[edit]ec-