Reconstruction:Latin/vocitum

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.

Latin

Etymology

Originally a past participle of vocāre (“to empty”, verb), attested variant of vacāre, compare vacuus (“empty”, adj).

Adjective

*vocitum (Proto-Romance)

empty

Reconstruction notes

For the */ɔ/, cf. vocīvus < vacīvus. The form of the perfect passive participle is surprising, as vocātus is expected, like vacātus, and looks analogous to first conjugation verbs with perfect in -u- such as crepāre.

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: vuoto, voto (Tuscan), voito, voido, voto (central dialects)
- Neapolitan: vuoito, vuito
North Italian:
- Friulian: vueit
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: vut, vot, veut
  - Old Lombard: uoio
    - Lombard: veuid, veui, veut, veu
  - Old Ligurian: vojo
    - Ligurian: vêuo, veujo
  - Piedmontese: veuid, veui
  - Romagnol: vuit, voit, vut, vuet
- Ladin: vuet, uet, vuot, öt, öć
Old French: vuit, voit, wit, wide, vuide
- Bourguignon: veude
- French: vide
  - → Romanian: vid
- Norman: viède
- Picard: uide
- Walloon: vute
- → Middle English: voide, voyde
  - English: void
    - → Welsh: foed
Occitano-Romance:
- Aragonese: vueito
  Ribagorçan: vuedo, vuido
  - → Spanish: buido (or from Catalan)
- Occitan:
  - Auvergnat: voeide
  - Gascon: vueit, vuit, vuet, voit, vut, vude
  - Languedocien: void, voide, vuèg, vèg
  - Limousin: voide
  - Provençal: vuege, vege, voeide, veuide
  - Vivaro-Alpine: vuege, viude, vuide
- Old Catalan: buit
  - Catalan: buit, but
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: buidu, boidu

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*vŏcĭtus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 595