profilius

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *próder.

Proto-Italic *prō

Latin prō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁ilyós

Proto-Italic *θīlios

Proto-Italic *fīlios

Latin fīlius

Latin prōfīlius

From prō + fīlius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proːˈfiː.li.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [proˈfiː.li.us]

Noun

prōfīlius m (genitive prōfīliī or prōfīlī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a grandson

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prōfīlius	prōfīliī
genitive	prōfīliī prōfīlī1	prōfīliōrum
dative	prōfīliō	prōfīliīs
accusative	prōfīlium	prōfīliōs
ablative	prōfīliō	prōfīliīs
vocative	prōfīlie	prōfīliī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (grandson): nepōs (Classical)

References

• "profilius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 860/1, “profilius”