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Definition 2024
primogenitus
primogenitus
Latin
Adjective
prīmōgenitus m (feminine prīmōgenita, neuter prīmōgenitum); first/second declension
- (post-Augustan) first-born
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | prīmōgenitus | prīmōgenita | prīmōgenitum | prīmōgenitī | prīmōgenitae | prīmōgenita | |
| genitive | prīmōgenitī | prīmōgenitae | prīmōgenitī | prīmōgenitōrum | prīmōgenitārum | prīmōgenitōrum | |
| dative | prīmōgenitō | prīmōgenitō | prīmōgenitīs | ||||
| accusative | prīmōgenitum | prīmōgenitam | prīmōgenitum | prīmōgenitōs | prīmōgenitās | prīmōgenita | |
| ablative | prīmōgenitō | prīmōgenitā | prīmōgenitō | prīmōgenitīs | |||
| vocative | prīmōgenite | prīmōgenita | prīmōgenitum | prīmōgenitī | prīmōgenitae | prīmōgenita | |
Synonyms
- (first-born): prīmōgenitālis (Ecclesiastical Latin)
Derived terms
- prīmōgenita (Late Latin)
- prīmōgenitālis (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- prīmōgenitīvus
- prīmōgenitūra (Mediaeval Latin)
Descendants
- Catalan: primogènit
- English: primogenit, primogenitary
- Galician: primoxénito
- Italian: primogenito
- Middle French: primogenit
- Portuguese: primogênito
- Spanish: primogénito
References
- prīmōgĕnĭtus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “prīmōgĕnĭtus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,237/2.