privignus

Latin

Etymology

By surface analysis, prīvus +‎ -gnus, literally “born separately”. The reflex -ignus instead of the expected *prīvognus is to be explained by analogy of bigno- (“twin”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /priːˈu̯iɡ.nus/, [priːˈu̯ɪŋnʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /priˈviɲ.ɲus/, [priˈviɲːus]

Noun

prīvignus m (genitive prīvignī); second declension

  1. stepson

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative prīvignus prīvignī
Genitive prīvignī prīvignōrum
Dative prīvignō prīvignīs
Accusative prīvignum prīvignōs
Ablative prīvignō prīvignīs
Vocative prīvigne prīvignī

Translations

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “gignō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261

Further reading
  • “privignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “privignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • privignus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • privignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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