Old Italian

English Etymology en old Old + en Italian, on the pattern of en Old English Proper noun en proper noun Old Italian The continuum of languages derived from Vulgar Latin spoken in the Italian peninsula between circa 960 and the establishment of the Accademia della Crusca in 1582.“Old Italian” defined by WordNet Search – 3·0 en 1938 George Melville Bolling; Bernard Bloch Language 14 http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=WHMiSsLrLYr0ygT3qsCpDw&id=KG4UAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22vowel+in+final+position+on+certain+occasions%22&q=%22occasions+in+Old+Italian%22&pgis=1#search_anchor 224 Linguistic Society of America The theory that there was a spontaneous development of an obscure vowel in final position on certain occasions in Old Italian has gained general currency and has been carried on in the works of the main authorities. 2000, Guido Mensching, Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects: A Syntactic Analysis of the Romance Languages, pages 30{1} and 31{2} (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; 019513303X, 9780195133035) {1} [… T]his configuration, in which the infinitive clause is a prepositional complement of a noun, could not be found in the documentary evidence of (Tuscan) Old Italian. Another diverging property in this example is the preverbal subject after prepositions, no longer common in Old Italian at the end of the fifteenth century […] {2} [… T]he examples show the use of nonauxiliary verbs. Though similar to Old Italian, this is another difference from contemporary Italian. Translations continuum of languages Armenian: hy հին իտալերեն Chinese: Hokkien: nan-hbl 古意大利語 kó͘ Ì-tāi-lī-gír Mandarin: cmn 古義大利語 Czech: cs staroitalština f, cs stará italština f French: fr vieil italien m Italian: it italiano antico m Latin: la lingua italica antīqua Spanish: es italiano antiguo m Swedish: sv fornitalienska c Venetan: vec italiàn vecio m See also it Storia della lingua italiana (in Italian) Wiktionary's coverage of Old Italian terms References Anagrams en aadiillnot dilational en retronyms en History of Italy Italian Languages