privignus
Latin
Etymology
By surface analysis, prīvus + -gnus, literally “born separately”. The reflex -ignus instead of the expected *prīvognus is to be explained by analogy of bigno- (“twin”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [priːˈwɪŋ.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [priˈviɲ.ɲus]
Noun
prīvignus m (genitive prīvignī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | prīvignus | prīvignī |
| genitive | prīvignī | prīvignōrum |
| dative | prīvignō | prīvignīs |
| accusative | prīvignum | prīvignōs |
| ablative | prīvignō | prīvignīs |
| vocative | prīvigne | prīvignī |
Related terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261
Further reading
- “privignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “privignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "privignus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- privignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.