milvinus

Latin

Alternative forms

• mīluīnus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mīlvus

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin mīlvīnus

From mīlvus (“kite”) + -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [miːɫˈwiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [milˈviː.nus]

Adjective

mīlvīnus (feminine mīlvīna, neuter mīlvīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) kite
2. kite-like, rapacious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mīlvīnus	mīlvīna	mīlvīnum		mīlvīnī	mīlvīnae	mīlvīna
genitive	mīlvīnī	mīlvīnae	mīlvīnī		mīlvīnōrum	mīlvīnārum	mīlvīnōrum
dative	mīlvīnō	mīlvīnae	mīlvīnō		mīlvīnīs
accusative	mīlvīnum	mīlvīnam	mīlvīnum		mīlvīnōs	mīlvīnās	mīlvīna
ablative	mīlvīnō	mīlvīnā	mīlvīnō		mīlvīnīs
vocative	mīlvīne	mīlvīna	mīlvīnum		mīlvīnī	mīlvīnae	mīlvīna

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *milānus
  • Old Occitan: milan
    • Catalan: milà
    • Occitan: milan
    • → French: milan
      • → German: Milan
      • → Romanian: milan
  • West Iberian
    • Portuguese: milhano
    • Spanish: milano
    • ⇒? Portuguese: milhafre

References

• “milvinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “milvinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “milvinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.