mastico

See also: masticó and masticò

Catalan

Verb

mastico

  1. first-person singular present indicative of masticar

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmas.ti.ko/
  • Rhymes: -astiko
  • Hyphenation: mà‧sti‧co

Verb

mastico

  1. first-person singular present indicative of masticare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαστιχάω (mastikháō).

Pronunciation

Verb

masticō (present infinitive masticāre, perfect active masticāvī, supine masticātum); first conjugation (post-classical)

  1. to chew

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: meastic
    • Megleno-Romanian: mastic, mestic
    • Romanian: mesteca
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Lombard: mastegar
      • Piedmontese: mastié, mas-cé
      • Romagnol: mastigher
    • Friulian: mastiâ
    • Venetan: mastegar
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: mastegar
    • Franco-Provençal: mâchiér
    • Old French: mascher
      • French: mâcher (see there for further descendants)
    • Occitan: mastegar (several dialects)
      Auvergnat: maschar
      Gascon: amastegar, mastecar, amastecar
      Languedocien: machegar
      Limousin: maschar
      Vivaro-Alpine: mastiar
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • Proto-Albanian: [Term?]
      • Albanian: mështekohem
  • Later borrowings:

References

Further reading

  • mastico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mastico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

mastico

  1. first-person singular present indicative of masticar