Saturninus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Sāturnus

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin Sāturnīnus

From Sāturnus + -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saː.tʊrˈniː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sa.turˈniː.nus]

Proper noun

Sāturnīnus m sg (genitive Sāturnīnī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gaius Sentius Saturninus, a Roman consul

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Sāturnīnus
genitive	Sāturnīnī
dative	Sāturnīnō
accusative	Sāturnīnum
ablative	Sāturnīnō
vocative	Sāturnīne

Descendants

• Catalan: Sadurní, Serni
• French: Saturnin, Sernin
• ⇒ Galician: San Sadurniño
• Italian: Saturnino
• Occitan: Sarnin
• Old Leonese: Sadornino
  • Asturian: Sadurnín
• Portuguese: Sadurninho
• → Portuguese: Saturnino
• Spanish: Serenín, Cernín
• → Spanish: Saturnino

References

• “Saturninus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Saturninus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.