secundogeniture
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin secundōgenitūra.
Noun
[edit]secundogeniture (plural secundogenitures)
- The condition of being secondborn
- A right of inheritance belonging to a second son.
- A property or possession so inherited.
- 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
- The kingdom of Naples […] was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain.