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cante, rubicondare in Berni and the Ottimo Comento; 
rollio, rullio, the latter the modem form * * 3 4 ; 
rogiada, in Boiardo, dialectic, rugiada, regular and modern; 
sogattolo, sogatto, sovatto, and sugatto 5 ; 
soperbo, 13th century and living among the peasants, superbo, 
literary; 
sostanza, sopportare, sobbolire, soffocare, etc., etc., are regular 
Florentine forms, but sustanza (13-16 centuries) ,suwer- 
tire (14), suttrarre (,13), suppprtare (Bern,bo), subbollire 
(Caro and Segneri di FRettuno), suffocare (Guicciardini), 
etc., etc., are numerous in the old language and may be 
dialectic, literary, or a trace of the illit. development men* 
tioned in §62. 
64. Examples of the Development of Vulgar Latin 
IJ> Italian U :—These are taken at random and include lit¬ 
erary words, which have the same development: brucare, bru- 
■eiare, bruire 1 , brunire, brusio, bubbone, butirro 2 , crudele, cu- 
rioso, custode, durare, frugale, frullana, frullare 3 , fuliggine, 
funerale, funesto, funzionare, fustaio, futilita, future, giudi- 
care, giumento, giurare, giustizia, lucignolo, ludibrio, luminel- 
lo, lunedi, lussuria, mucino, munerare, municipio, munire, 
museo, mustella, mutande, nutrire, plurale, prudente, prurito, 
puberta, pulcella, puleggio, pungiglione, punire, pupivori, pur- 
gare, purulento, puttana, rumore, rurale, struggeva, etc. 4 , stru- 
mento, su, truante, tubercolo, tutore, uligine,. umano, umore, 
uncino, unguento, unione, unire, upiglio, 5 usare, ustilaggine, 
usurpare®. 
4. Perhaps neither rollio nor rullio are Italian. 
5. Diez: suhactn-; M.-L. accepts this etymology; why not a deriva¬ 
tive of soga? 
§64. Note 1. For the original vowel cf. Fr. bruire. 
• 2. Burro, the usual modern word, is from the French. 
3. From *fluctulare. 
4. From *destrugo. 
5. From *ulpiculu-, diminutive of ulpicum (short initial u), used by 
'Cato; see Grober, ALB VI 145 and D’Ovidio AG XIII 423. 
6. As a matter of fact, it is tempting to gToup these words with the 
development of 5 il. If one were to remove the literary examples, 
those influenced by an allied or analogous form, and those conforming 
to the regular development of (as upiglio, mucino, etc.), there 
would be few exceptions left to explain. Cf. Grandgent, Introd. to 
"Vulg. Lat., §228. 
