16-07-2026, 12:35 PM
I don't know if this particularity has been considered.
The word "ros" was common, everyday spoken word for "red" in some specific regions and areas of Northern Italy, such as Friuli and the Dolomite valleys, during the 15th century.
The primary mechanism that turned the Latin russus (or early Italian rosso) into ros was the the dropping of final unstressed vowels.
Historical linguists date the apocope of final vowels in Gallo-Italic and Rhaeto-Romance languages to the early Middle Ages, roughly between the 8th and 11th centuries.
Because this phonetic shift was fully completed centuries before the 1400, it is a linguistic consensus that the populations speaking these dialects in the 15th century were already saying ros. This refers only to the spoken language; in writing they would have used roço or rosso.
The word "ros" was common, everyday spoken word for "red" in some specific regions and areas of Northern Italy, such as Friuli and the Dolomite valleys, during the 15th century.
The primary mechanism that turned the Latin russus (or early Italian rosso) into ros was the the dropping of final unstressed vowels.
Historical linguists date the apocope of final vowels in Gallo-Italic and Rhaeto-Romance languages to the early Middle Ages, roughly between the 8th and 11th centuries.
Because this phonetic shift was fully completed centuries before the 1400, it is a linguistic consensus that the populations speaking these dialects in the 15th century were already saying ros. This refers only to the spoken language; in writing they would have used roço or rosso.