abiegnus

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Latin

Etymology

From abiēs, abiet- (“silver fir”) +‎ -nus (suffix used to form adjectives of material). The -gn- seems to have developed by analogy with semantically similar adjectives in -nus derived from tree names with a stem-final velar consonant, such as salignus, larignus, īlignus from salix (“willow”), larix (“larch”), īlex (“holm oak”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

abiēgnus (feminine abiēgna, neuter abiēgnum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. made of fir or deal

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative abiēgnus abiēgna abiēgnum abiēgnī abiēgnae abiēgna
Genitive abiēgnī abiēgnae abiēgnī abiēgnōrum abiēgnārum abiēgnōrum
Dative abiēgnō abiēgnō abiēgnīs
Accusative abiēgnum abiēgnam abiēgnum abiēgnōs abiēgnās abiēgna
Ablative abiēgnō abiēgnā abiēgnō abiēgnīs
Vocative abiēgne abiēgna abiēgnum abiēgnī abiēgnae abiēgna

Descendants

  • Albanian: vgje
  • Portuguese: abiegno

References

  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “abiegnus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 3

Further reading

  • “abiegnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “abiegnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • abiegnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 1.

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