sobrinus
Latin
Etymology
Substantivised form of the Proto-Italic adjective *swezrīnos (“of the sister”). The regular descendant would be *suebrīnus. The change swe- > so- occurred only before a following non-front vowel, which did not occur in this word but did in soror. Thus, the initial so- is probably by analogy.[1]
Noun
sōbrīnus m (genitive sōbrīnī); second declension
- maternal cousin (male)
- (Late Latin) A cousin's child.
- 556 AD - 636 AD, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, page VIII:
- Sobrini consobrinorum filii.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sōbrīnus | sōbrīnī |
| Genitive | sōbrīnī | sōbrīnōrum |
| Dative | sōbrīnō | sōbrīnīs |
| Accusative | sōbrīnum | sōbrīnōs |
| Ablative | sōbrīnō | sōbrīnīs |
| Vocative | sōbrīne | sōbrīnī |
Related terms
Descendants
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: sobrín
- Old Leonese: sopbrino
- Old Galician-Portuguese: sobrinno, sobrino
- Old Spanish: sobrino
References
- “sobrinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sobrinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sobrinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN