abiegnus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom abiēs, abiet- (“silver fir”) + -nus (suffix used to form adjectives of material). The -gn- seems to have developed by analogy with semantically similar adjectives in -nus derived from tree names with a stem-final velar consonant, such as salignus, larignus, īlignus from salix (“willow”), larix (“larch”), īlex (“holm oak”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /a.biˈeːɡ.nus/, [äbiˈeːŋnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.biˈeɲ.ɲus/, [äbiˈɛɲːus]
Adjective
editabiēgnus (feminine abiēgna, neuter abiēgnum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | abiēgnus | abiēgna | abiēgnum | abiēgnī | abiēgnae | abiēgna | |
| Genitive | abiēgnī | abiēgnae | abiēgnī | abiēgnōrum | abiēgnārum | abiēgnōrum | |
| Dative | abiēgnō | abiēgnō | abiēgnīs | ||||
| Accusative | abiēgnum | abiēgnam | abiēgnum | abiēgnōs | abiēgnās | abiēgna | |
| Ablative | abiēgnō | abiēgnā | abiēgnō | abiēgnīs | |||
| Vocative | abiēgne | abiēgna | abiēgnum | abiēgnī | abiēgnae | abiēgna | |
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “abiegnus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 3
Further reading
edit- “abiegnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abiegnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abiegnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 1.