sororius
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From soror (“sister”) + -ius (“-ly: forming adjectives of belonging”). Cf. uxorius (“wifely”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /soˈroː.ri.us/, [s̠ɔˈroːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /soˈro.ri.us/, [soˈrɔːrius]
Adjective[edit]
sorōrius (feminine sorōria, neuter sorōrium); first/second-declension adjective
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sorōrius | sorōria | sorōrium | sorōriī | sorōriae | sorōria | |
| Genitive | sorōriī | sorōriae | sorōriī | sorōriōrum | sorōriārum | sorōriōrum | |
| Dative | sorōriō | sorōriō | sorōriīs | ||||
| Accusative | sorōrium | sorōriam | sorōrium | sorōriōs | sorōriās | sorōria | |
| Ablative | sorōriō | sorōriā | sorōriō | sorōriīs | |||
| Vocative | sorōrie | sorōria | sorōrium | sorōriī | sorōriae | sorōria | |
Noun[edit]
sorōrius m (genitive sorōriī or sorōrī); second declension
- brother-in-law (sister's husband)
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sorōrius | sorōriī |
| Genitive | sorōriī sorōrī1 |
sorōriōrum |
| Dative | sorōriō | sorōriīs |
| Accusative | sorōrium | sorōriōs |
| Ablative | sorōriō | sorōriīs |
| Vocative | sorōrie | sorōriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References[edit]
- “sororius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sororius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sororius 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)
- sororius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.