milvinus
Latin
Alternative forms
- mīluīnus
Etymology
mīlvus (“kite”) + -īnus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /miːlˈu̯iː.nus/, [miːɫ̪ˈu̯iːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /milˈvi.nus/, [milˈviːnus]
Adjective
mīlvīnus (feminine mīlvīna, neuter mīlvīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) kite
- kite-like, rapacious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mīlvīnus | mīlvīna | mīlvīnum | mīlvīnī | mīlvīnae | mīlvīna | |
Genitive | mīlvīnī | mīlvīnae | mīlvīnī | mīlvīnōrum | mīlvīnārum | mīlvīnōrum | |
Dative | mīlvīnō | mīlvīnō | mīlvīnīs | ||||
Accusative | mīlvīnum | mīlvīnam | mīlvīnum | mīlvīnōs | mīlvīnās | mīlvīna | |
Ablative | mīlvīnō | mīlvīnā | mīlvīnō | mīlvīnīs | |||
Vocative | mīlvīne | mīlvīna | mīlvīnum | mīlvīnī | mīlvīnae | mīlvīna |
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *milānus
- Old Occitan: milan
- Catalan: milà
- Occitan: milan
- → French: milan
- → German: Milan
- → Romanian: milan
- West Iberian
- Portuguese: milhano
- Spanish: milano
- ⇒? Portuguese: milhafre
- Old Occitan: milan
References
- “milvinus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “milvinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- milvinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette