primogenitalis
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]prīmōgenitus (“first-born”) + -ālis
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /priː.moː.ɡe.niˈtaː.lis/, [priːmoːɡɛnɪˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pri.mo.d͡ʒe.niˈta.lis/, [primod͡ʒeniˈt̪äːlis]
Adjective
[edit]prīmōgenitālis (neuter prīmōgenitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- firstborn; primogenital
- the first of all as to origin; original; primeval
- c. 3rd century, Tertullianus, chapter XX, in J[acques]-P[aul] Migne, editor, Adversus Valentinianos [Against the Valentinians][1], Latin edition, volume 2, quoted in Patrologiae cursus completus, Paris, published 1844, →OCLC, CPL 16, pages 523–594:
- unde et Sabbatum dictum est ab hebdomade sedis suae et Ogdoada mater Achamoth ab argumento ogdoadis primigenitalis.
- Whence he had the additional name of Sabbatum from the hebdomadal nature of his abode; his mother Achamoth, too, had the title Ogdoada, after the precedent of the primeval Ogdoad.[2]
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
singular | plural | ||||
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masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | prīmōgenitālis | prīmōgenitāle | prīmōgenitālēs | prīmōgenitālia | |
genitive | prīmōgenitālis | prīmōgenitālium | |||
dative | prīmōgenitālī | prīmōgenitālibus | |||
accusative | prīmōgenitālem | prīmōgenitāle | prīmōgenitālēs prīmōgenitālīs |
prīmōgenitālia | |
ablative | prīmōgenitālī | prīmōgenitālibus | |||
vocative | prīmōgenitālis | prīmōgenitāle | prīmōgenitālēs | prīmōgenitālia |
Synonyms
[edit]- (first-born): prīmōgenitus (post-Augustan but Classical)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: primogenital
References
[edit]- “prīmōgĕnĭtālis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "primogenitalis", 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)
- prīmōgĕnĭtālis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,237/2.