sobrinus
Latin
Etymology
Substantivised form of the Proto-Italic adjective *swezrīnos (“of the sister”), from which *suebrīnus would be expected since swe- > so- occurs only before a non-front vowel in the next syllable. Thus the initial so- must be an analogical renewal from soror.[1]
Noun
sōbrīnus m (genitive sōbrīnī, feminine sōbrīna); second declension
- mother's sister's son
- sororal nephew
- nephew
- (Late Latin) A cousin's child.
- 556 AD - 636 AD, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, page VIII:
- Sobrini consobrinorum filii.
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Declension
Second-declension noun.
| 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), “soror”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 576
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