consobrinus

consobrinus

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ sobrīnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.soˈbriː.nus/, [kõːs̠ɔˈbriːnʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.soˈbri.nus/, [konsoˈbriːnus]

Noun

cōnsobrīnus m (genitive cōnsobrīnī, feminine cōnsobrīna); second declension

1. a first cousin, cousin-german
2. a maternal male cousin; the child of a mother's brother
3. a relation

Usage notes

This term is most often encountered in the plural form cōnsobrīnī, referring to all the cousins of either gender.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnsobrīnus	cōnsobrīnī
Genitive	cōnsobrīnī	cōnsobrīnōrum
Dative	cōnsobrīnō	cōnsobrīnīs
Accusative	cōnsobrīnum	cōnsobrīnōs
Ablative	cōnsobrīnō	cōnsobrīnīs
Vocative	cōnsobrīne	cōnsobrīnī

Related terms

• cōnsobrīna
• sobrīnus

Descendants

• Aromanian: cusurin
• Catalan: cosí
• Dalmatian: cosobrain
• Franco-Provençal: cusin
• Old French: cosin
  • French: cousin
    • → German: Cousin
    • → Polish: kuzyn
    • → Russian: кузе́н (kuzén)
    • → Swedish: kusin
    • → Turkish: kuzen
    • → Ukrainian: кузе́н (kuzén)
  • Lorrain: cugin
  • → Dutch: kozijn
  • → German: Cousin, Cousine
  • → English: cousin
    • → Esperanto: kuzo, kuzino
      • → Ido: kuzo, kuzino
• Friulian: cusin
• Italian: consobrino, cugino
• Norman: cousin, couôsîn, couôthîn
• Occitan: cosin
• Portuguese: consobrinho
• Romansch: cusrin, cusregn, cusdrin
• Sicilian: cucinu
• Venetian: cuxin
• Walloon: cuzén
• → Albanian: kushëri

References

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