consobrinus

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ sōbrīnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.soːˈbriː.nus/, [kõːs̠oːˈbriːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.soˈbri.nus/, [konsoˈbriːnus]

Noun

cōnsōbrīnus m (genitive cōnsōbrīnī); second declension

1. a first cousin, cousin-german
2. a maternal male cousin; the child of a mother's brother
3. a relation

Usage notes

This term is most often encountered in the plural form cōnsobrīnī, referring to all the cousins of either gender.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnsōbrīnus	cōnsōbrīnī
Genitive	cōnsōbrīnī	cōnsōbrīnōrum
Dative	cōnsōbrīnō	cōnsōbrīnīs
Accusative	cōnsōbrīnum	cōnsōbrīnōs
Ablative	cōnsōbrīnō	cōnsōbrīnīs
Vocative	cōnsōbrīne	cōnsōbrīnī

Related terms

• cōnsōbrīna
• sōbrīnus

Descendants

• Albanian: kushëri
• Aromanian: cusurin
• Catalan: cosí
• Dalmatian: cosobrain
• Dutch: kozijn
• English: cousin, consobrinal
• Franco-Provençal: cusin
• French: cousin
• Friulian: cusin
• Italian: consobrino, cugino

• Norman: couôsîn, couôthîn
• Occitan: cosin
• Old French: cosin
• Portuguese: consobrinho
• Romansch: cusrin, cusregn, cusdrin
• Sicilian: cucinu
• Swedish: kusin
• Venetian: cuxin
• Walloon: cuzén

References

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