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Latin
Etymology
fornix (“vault, brothel”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
fornicor (present infinitive fornicārī, perfect active fornicātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to fornicate, commit fornication
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References
- “fornicor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fornicor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “fornicare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 258
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fornicare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 725
- Dworkin, Steven N. 2016. Lexical stability and shared lexicon. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 586. Oxford University Press.
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “fornicare”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “forricare”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg