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sobrinus

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Latin

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Etymology

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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.[1]

Noun

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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.

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sobrīnus sobrīnī
genitive sobrīnī sobrīnōrum
dative sobrīnō sobrīnīs
accusative sobrīnum sobrīnōs
ablative sobrīnō sobrīnīs
vocative sobrīne sobrīnī
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Descendants

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All surviving descendants belong to the Ibero-Romance group.

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

References

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  • “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.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “soror”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 576
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