sobrinus

== Latin == === Etymology === Substantivised form of the Proto-Italic adjective *swezrīnos (“of the sister”), from which *suebrīnus would be expected since swe- > so- occurs only before a non-front vowel in the next syllable. Thus the initial so- must be an analogical renewal from soror. === Noun === sobrīnus m (genitive sobrīnī, feminine sobrīna); second declension sororal nephew nephew mother's sister's son, maternal parallel cousin (Late Latin) A cousin's child. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== sobrīna cōnsobrīnus ==== Descendants ==== All surviving descendants belong to the Ibero-Romance group. === References === “sobrinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sobrinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “sobrinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.