primogenita

primogenita f (plural primogenite, masculine primogenito)

1. eldest or firstborn daughter

A substantivisation of the neuter plural forms of the Classical Latin adjective prīmōgenitus (“first-born”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pri.moˈd͡ʒe.ni.ta/,

prīmōgenita n pl (genitive prīmōgenitōrum); second declension

1. (Late Latin) primogeniture (inheritance by the first-born child of the entirety of, or of a privileged position in, a parent’s wealth, estate, or office)

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• (primogeniture): prīmōgenitūra (Mediaeval Latin)

• “prīmōgĕnĭta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• primogenita 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)
• prīmōgĕnĭtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,237/2.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “primogenita (subst. neutr. plural.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 849/1

Regularly declined forms of prīmōgenitus (“first-born”).

• prīmōgenita: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.ta/,
• prīmōgenita: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pri.moˈd͡ʒe.ni.ta/,
• prīmōgenitā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.taː/,
• prīmōgenitā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pri.moˈd͡ʒe.ni.ta/,

prīmōgenita

1. inflection of prīmōgenitus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

prīmōgenitā

1. ablative feminine singular of prīmōgenitus