abiegnus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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
[edit]abiēgnus (feminine abiēgna, neuter abiēgnum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | abiēgnus | abiēgna | abiēgnum | abiēgnī | abiēgnae | abiēgna | |
| genitive | abiēgnī | abiēgnae | abiēgnī | abiēgnōrum | abiēgnārum | abiēgnōrum | |
| dative | abiēgnō | abiēgnae | abiēgnō | abiēgnīs | |||
| accusative | abiēgnum | abiēgnam | abiēgnum | abiēgnōs | abiēgnās | abiēgna | |
| ablative | abiēgnō | abiēgnā | abiēgnō | abiēgnīs | |||
| vocative | abiēgne | abiēgna | abiēgnum | abiēgnī | abiēgnae | abiēgna | |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[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.