privignus

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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

Noun

prīvignus m (genitive prīvignī); second declension

  1. stepson

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative prīvignus prīvignī
genitive prīvignī prīvignōrum
dative prīvignō prīvignīs
accusative prīvignum prīvignōs
ablative prīvignō prīvignīs
vocative prīvigne prīvignī

References

  1. ^ 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.
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