primogenitus
Latin
Etymology
Compound of prīmus (“first”) + genitus (“begotten”), calqued after the Ancient Greek πρωτότοκος (prōtótokos, “first-born”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.tus/, [priːmoːˈɡɛnɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pri.moˈd͡ʒe.ni.tus/, [primoˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪us]
Adjective
prīmōgenitus (feminine prīmōgenita, neuter prīmōgenitum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | prīmōgenitus | prīmōgenita | prīmōgenitum | prīmōgenitī | prīmōgenitae | prīmōgenita | |
| Genitive | prīmōgenitī | prīmōgenitae | prīmōgenitī | prīmōgenitōrum | prīmōgenitārum | prīmōgenitōrum | |
| Dative | prīmōgenitō | prīmōgenitō | prīmōgenitīs | ||||
| Accusative | prīmōgenitum | prīmōgenitam | prīmōgenitum | prīmōgenitōs | prīmōgenitās | prīmōgenita | |
| Ablative | prīmōgenitō | prīmōgenitā | prīmōgenitō | prīmōgenitīs | |||
| Vocative | prīmōgenite | prīmōgenita | prīmōgenitum | prīmōgenitī | prīmōgenitae | prīmōgenita | |
Synonyms
- (first-born): prīmōgenitālis (Ecclesiastical Latin)
Derived terms
- prīmōgenita (Late Latin)
- prīmōgenitālis (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- prīmōgenitīvus
- prīmōgenitūra (Mediaeval Latin)
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.