Latin edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Noun edit

prīvignus m (genitive prīvignī); second declension

  1. stepson

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

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

Related terms edit

References edit

  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 edit

  • 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