primogenita

See also: primogénita, primogènita, and primogênita

Italian

primogenita f (plural primogenite, masculine primogenito)

A substantivisation of the neuter plural forms of the Classical Latin adjective prīmōgenitus (“first-born”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.ta/, [priːmoːˈɡɛnɪt̪ä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pri.moˈd͡ʒe.ni.ta/, [primoˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪ä]

prīmōgenita n pl (genitive prīmōgenitōrum); second declension

(Late Latin) primogeniture (inheritance by the first-born child of the entirety of, or of a privileged position in, a parent’s wealth, estate, or office)

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

“prīmōgĕnĭta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
primogenita 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)
prīmōgĕnĭtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,237/2.
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “primogenita (subst. neutr. plural.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 849/1

Regularly declined forms of prīmōgenitus (“first-born”).

prīmōgenita: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.ta/, [priːmoːˈɡɛnɪt̪ä]
prīmōgenita: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pri.moˈd͡ʒe.ni.ta/, [primoˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪ä]
prīmōgenitā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /priː.moːˈɡe.ni.taː/, [priːmoːˈɡɛnɪt̪äː]
prīmōgenitā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pri.moˈd͡ʒe.ni.ta/, [primoˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪ä]

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