filiaster

Latin

Etymology

Late and Vulgar Latin. From fīli(us) (“son”) +‎ -aster.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fiː.liˈas.ter/, [fiːlʲiˈäs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fi.liˈas.ter/, [filiˈäst̪er]

Noun

fīliaster m (genitive fīliastrī); second declension

1. stepson
2. son-in-law
3. nephew, sister's son

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fīliaster	fīliastrī
Genitive	fīliastrī	fīliastrōrum
Dative	fīliastrō	fīliastrīs
Accusative	fīliastrum	fīliastrōs
Ablative	fīliastrō	fīliastrīs
Vocative	fīliaster	fīliastrī

Descendants

• Albanian: thjeshtër
• Aromanian: hiljastru, hiljeastru
• Asturian: fiastru
• Catalan: fillastre
• Dalmatian: fejustro
• Friulian: fiastri
• Galician: fillastro
• Italian: figliastro

• Occitan: filhastre
• Portuguese: filhastro
• Romanian: fiastru
• Sardinian: fidhastru
• Sicilian: figghiastru
• Spanish: hijastro
• Venetian: fiastro, fiolastro

References

• “filiaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• filiaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.