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
- stepson
- son-in-law
- 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
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.