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sons
sons
See also: søns
Latin
Etymology
Old present participle from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-, whence sum. Thus prop. "he who was it", "the real person", "the guilty one". Confer with English sooth, sin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sons/, [sõːs]
Adjective
sōns m, f, n (genitive sontis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | sōns | sontēs | sontia | ||
| genitive | sontis | sontium | |||
| dative | sontī | sontibus | |||
| accusative | sontem | sōns | sontēs | sontia | |
| ablative | sontī | sontibus | |||
| vocative | sōns | sontēs | sontia | ||
Noun
sōns m (genitive sontis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension i-stem.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sōns | sontēs |
| genitive | sontis | sontium |
| dative | sontī | sontibus |
| accusative | sontem | sontēs |
| ablative | sonte | sontibus |
| vocative | sōns | sontēs |
Derived terms
- īnsōns
- sonticus
Descendants
References
- sons in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sons in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- SONS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sons”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag