I'm not buying this "Vulgar Latin" etymology, and neither is my man Corominas: "Se citan las formas sparadrapum y spadrapor, pero son reflejos tardíos de las formas romances." In other words, it's a mediaeval Latinisation of the Italian word cited above.
Here's the basic problem with it: We have the 15th-century Italian form sparadrappo. If this comes from sparadrapum, then what's the origin of the geminate p? The expected outcome of Vulgar Latin sparadrapum would be *sparadrapo (or *esparadrabo in Spanish), but that's not what we find.
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Date: 2009-01-07 09:44 pm (UTC)Here's the basic problem with it: We have the 15th-century Italian form sparadrappo. If this comes from sparadrapum, then what's the origin of the geminate p? The expected outcome of Vulgar Latin sparadrapum would be *sparadrapo (or *esparadrabo in Spanish), but that's not what we find.