caprinus

Latin

Etymology

From capr- +‎ -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈpriː.nus/, [käˈpriːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈpri.nus/, [käˈpriːnus]

Adjective

caprīnus (feminine caprīna, neuter caprīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. caprine (pertaining to goats)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	caprīnus	caprīna	caprīnum		caprīnī	caprīnae	caprīna
Genitive	caprīnī	caprīnae	caprīnī		caprīnōrum	caprīnārum	caprīnōrum
Dative	caprīnō		caprīnō		caprīnīs
Accusative	caprīnum	caprīnam	caprīnum		caprīnōs	caprīnās	caprīna
Ablative	caprīnō	caprīnā	caprīnō		caprīnīs
Vocative	caprīne	caprīna	caprīnum		caprīnī	caprīnae	caprīna

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cãprinã (“goat wool”)
  • Megleno-Romanian: căprină (“goat wool”)
  • Romanian: căprină (“rugged sheep”) (obsolete)
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: caprino, caprina (various goat-related nouns)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chevrin (“made of goat hair”)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: cabrina (“goatskin”)
  • Old Occitan: cabrin (rel. adj.)
    • Occitan: cabrin, cabin, chabrin, chabin
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: caprí
  • → English: caprine
  • → French: caprin
  • → Portuguese: caprino
  • → Romanian: caprin
  • → Spanish: caprino

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “caprīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 309

Further reading

• “caprinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caprinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caprinus 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)
• caprinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.