primogenitus

Latin

Etymology

Compound of prīmus (“first”) +‎ genitus (“begotten”), calqued after the Ancient Greek πρωτότοκος (prōtótokos, “first-born”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [priː.moːˈɡɛ.nɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pri.moˈd͡ʒɛː.ni.tus]

Adjective

prīmōgenitus (feminine prīmōgenita, neuter prīmōgenitum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (post-Augustan) first-born

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	prīmōgenitus	prīmōgenita	prīmōgenitum		prīmōgenitī	prīmōgenitae	prīmōgenita
genitive	prīmōgenitī	prīmōgenitae	prīmōgenitī		prīmōgenitōrum	prīmōgenitārum	prīmōgenitōrum
dative	prīmōgenitō	prīmōgenitae	prīmōgenitō		prīmōgenitīs
accusative	prīmōgenitum	prīmōgenitam	prīmōgenitum		prīmōgenitōs	prīmōgenitās	prīmōgenita
ablative	prīmōgenitō	prīmōgenitā	prīmōgenitō		prīmōgenitīs
vocative	prīmōgenite	prīmōgenita	prīmōgenitum		prīmōgenitī	prīmōgenitae	prīmōgenita

Synonyms

• (first-born): (Ecclesiastical Latin) prīmōgenitālis

Derived terms

• (Late Latin) prīmōgenita
• (Ecclesiastical Latin) prīmōgenitālis
• prīmōgenitīvus
• (Medieval Latin) prīmōgenitūra

Descendants

• Catalan: primogènit
• English: primogenit, primogenitary
• Galician: primoxénito
• Italian: primogenito
• Middle French: primogenit
• Portuguese: primogênito
• Spanish: primogénito

References

• “prīmōgĕnĭtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prīmōgĕnĭtus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,237/2.