sobrinus

Latin

Etymology

Substantivised form of the Proto-Italic adjective *swezrīnos (“of the sister”), from which *suebrīnus would be expected since swe- > so- occurs only before a non-front vowel in the next syllable. Thus the initial so- must be an analogical renewal from soror.

Noun

sobrīnus m (genitive sobrīnī, feminine sobrīna); second declension

1. sororal nephew
2. nephew
3. mother's sister's son, maternal parallel cousin
4. (Late Latin) A cousin's child.
   • 556-636 CE, Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, page VIII:

     Sobrini consobrinorum filii.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sobrīnus	sobrīnī
Genitive	sobrīnī	sobrīnōrum
Dative	sobrīnō	sobrīnīs
Accusative	sobrīnum	sobrīnōs
Ablative	sobrīnō	sobrīnīs
Vocative	sobrīne	sobrīnī

Related terms

• sobrīna
• consobrīnus

Descendants

All surviving descendants belong to the Ibero-Romance group.

• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: sobrín
• Old Leonese: sopbrino
  • Asturian: sobrín
  • Extremaduran: sobrinu
  • Leonese: sobrín
  • Mirandese: sobrino
• Old Galician-Portuguese: sobrinho
  • Galician: sobriño
  • Portuguese: sobrinho
• Old Spanish: sobrino
  • Spanish: sobrino (see there for further descendants)

References

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