Vaan Michiel de. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages

Leiden; Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 825 p. — (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary series 7).This dictionary, compiled by Vaan (linguistics, Leiden U. , the Netherlands), is the Italic part of the project Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, which was initiated in 1991 for the purposes of compiling a new and comprehensive etymological dictionary of the inherited vocabulary of the Indo-European languages, replacing the outdated dictionary of Pokorny (1959). The main goal of the dictionary is to describe which roots and stems of the vocabulary of the Italic languages (encompassing, for Vaan's purposes, the language families of Sabellic, Latino-Faliscan, and Venetic, and excluding Messapic) are likely to have been inherited from Proto-Indo-European. It also describes possible loanwords from Sabellic and probable loanwords from unidentifiable, but possibly older (Mediterranean) donor languages. The typical entry represents the derivationally most opaque member of a Latin word family: a present stem, a noun or adjective, an adverb, or a cardinal number. The English meaning of the word as given by the Oxford Latin Dictionary is given, but not the whole range of meanings as the purpose is merely identification. The gender and stem type of nouns, the conjugation of verbs, or other word type labels are provided. Dates entries as first attested in Latin are also provided, along with Latin derivatives of head entries, Italic and Indo-European cognates to Latin entries, Proto-Italic and Proto-Indo-European reconstructions (where possible), and etymology with discussion only for those disputed.