sobrinus
Latin
Etymology
Substantivised form of the Proto-Italic adjective *swezrīnos (“of the sister”). The regular descendant would be *suebrīnus. The change swe- > so- occurred only before a following non-front vowel, which did not occur in this word but did in soror. Thus, the initial so- is probably by analogy.[1]
Noun
sōbrīnus m (genitive sōbrīnī); second declension
- maternal cousin (male)
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sōbrīnus | sōbrīnī |
| genitive | sōbrīnī | sōbrīnōrum |
| dative | sōbrīnō | sōbrīnīs |
| accusative | sōbrīnum | sōbrīnōs |
| ablative | sōbrīnō | sōbrīnīs |
| vocative | sōbrīne | sōbrīnī |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- sobrinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sobrinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sobrinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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