Italian

Noun

primogenita f ‎(plural primogenite, masculine primogenito)

1. Eldest or firstborn daughter

Latin

Etymology 1

A substantivisation of the neuter plural forms of the Classical Latin adjective prīmōgenitus ‎(“first-born”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.ta/, [priː.moːˈɡɛ.nɪ.ta]

Noun

prīmōgenita n pl ‎(genitive prīmōgenitārum); second declension

1. (Late Latin) primogeniture (inheritance by the first-born child of the entirety of, or of a privileged position in, a parent’s wealth, estate, or office)

Declension

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (primogeniture): prīmōgenitūra (Mediaeval Latin)

References

• prīmōgĕnĭta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• PRIMOGENITA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “prīmōgĕnĭtus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,237/2.
• “primogenita (subst. neutr. plural.)” on page 849/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of prīmōgenitus ‎(“first-born”).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.ta/, [priː.moːˈɡɛ.nɪ.ta]

Adjective

prīmōgenita

1. nominative feminine singular of prīmōgenitus
2. nominative neuter plural of prīmōgenitus
3. accusative neuter plural of prīmōgenitus
4. vocative feminine singular of prīmōgenitus
5. vocative neuter plural of prīmōgenitus

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.taː/, [priː.moːˈɡɛ.nɪ.taː]

Adjective

prīmōgenitā

1. ablative feminine singular of prīmōgenitus