privignus Latin · revision 32565

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la prīvus, ine-pro *ǵenh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [priːˈwɪŋ.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [priˈviɲ.ɲus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prīvignus''' ''m'' (genitive prīvignī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prīvus|-gnus|t1=one's own, separate|t2=born]], with the second part from the root of [[m|la|gignō|t=to beget]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The TLL explains the original sense as "born separately", that is, from an earlier marriage, and takes ⟨-gno-⟩ for the old form, as in [[m|la|benignus]], with ⟨prīvigenus⟩ a later variant.^(TLL) Wiktionary explains ⟨-ignus⟩ for the expected *prīvognus by analogy.^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|prīvus]] to [[itc-pro|*prei-wo-|t=separate, individual]] and [[ine-pro|*prei-wo-]], built on the stem of [[m|la|prior]], and [[m|la|gignō]] to [[ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-|t=to beget]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a stepson, and in the plural stepchildren: Tacitus writes of a woman who would be a parent to her stepchildren, and Papinian notes that stepchildren may marry each other.^(OLD 2012) The OLD also records an adjective, related as a stepson.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short quote a definition: a wife is a stepmother to her husband's children by another wife, and both are said to have stepchildren.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The feminine ⟨prīvigna⟩ is a stepdaughter.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval Latin it also meant a father-in-law.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of stepchildren.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 212 AD – Papinian on marriage between stepchildren.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|stepson]]; in the plural, [[m|en|stepchildren]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|father-in-law]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[privigna|alt=prīvigna]]

+ * [[privus|alt=prīvus]]

+ * [[noverca]]

+ * [[vitricus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}