abiegnus

== Latin == === Etymology === From abiēs, abiet- (“silver fir”) +‎ -nus (suffix used to form adjectives of material). The -gn- seems to have developed by analogy with semantically similar adjectives in -nus derived from tree names with a stem-final velar consonant, such as salignus, larignus, īlignus from salix (“willow”), larix (“larch”), īlex (“holm oak”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.biˈeːŋ.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.biˈɛɲ.ɲus] === Adjective === abiēgnus (feminine abiēgna, neuter abiēgnum); first/second-declension adjective made of fir or deal ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Related terms ==== abiēs abietārius ==== Descendants ==== Albanian: vgje Portuguese: abiegno === References === === Further reading === “abiegnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “abiegnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “abiegnus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 1.