aciale

Latin

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.

Latin aciēs

Latin -āle

Latin aciāle

From aciēs (“point”) + -āle.

aciāle n (genitive aciālis); third declension

(Northern Italy, Late Latin) steel^[1]^[2]
Synonyms: chalybs (Classical), aciārium (Late Latin)
- c. 450-600 [c. 320-403], Oribasius, anonymous translator, Synopsis, translation of original in Ancient Greek:
  lippidas stomomatus id est ferrugine aciales lavato
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

North Italian:
- Emilian: asàl (Parmigiano, Reggiano)
- Friulian: açâl
- Ladin: acià
  Fascian Ladin: aciàl, acèl
  
  Gherdëina Ladin: acèl
  
  Moenese: aciàl
- Old Ligurian: azale
  - Ligurian: asà
    Monegasque: açaru
- Old Lombard: azale, azal
  - Lombard: azzal, azal
    Eastern Lombard: assàl
    
    Poschiavino: asciàl
- Piedmontese: assel
  Monferrino: assèe
- Romansh: atschal, atschel, itschal
- Old Venetan: açal, açale, açallo, azalle, azalo, azzal
  - Venetan: açal, çal, azhal, asal
    Central: assàle, assàe
    
    Valsuganese: sale
    - → Italian: azal
  - → Greek: ατσάλι (atsáli)
- → Old Italian: acciale, accialo
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: aciel
  - Franco-Provençal: aciel (Aosta)
→ Proto-West Germanic: *akkjal (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Slavic: *ocelь, *ocělь^[3]
- Old Czech: ocěl
  - Czech: ocel
  - → Polish: ocel
- Old Church Slavonic: оцѣль (ocělĭ)
  - → Romanian: oțel
- Carpathian Rusyn: оціль (ocilʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: ocjel, оцјел
  Kajkavian: ocelj
  
  Ikavian: ocil, ocilj
- Slovak: oceľ
- Slovene: ocel
- Upper Sorbian: wocl, wocel
- → Dalmatian: azuol
- → Hungarian: acél
- → Istro-Romanian: acel

^ Pfister, Max; Schweickard, Wolfgang (1979-), “aciale”, in Lessico etimologico italiano‎^[1], volume I: Ab—alburnus, Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, pages 204-208, columns 408-416.
^ Adams, J.N. (2007), The regional diversification of Latin, 200 BC-AD 600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 475
^ Vít Boček (2010), Studie k nejstarším romanismům ve slovanských jazycích (Studia etymologica Brunensia; 9), Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37.