Wakefield Family History Sharing
Latin Terminology Latin Names
Latin to English
abavia - great great grandmother
abavus - great great grandfather
adnepos - son of the great grandson or great grandaughter
adneptis - daughter of the great grandson or great grandaughter
aetatis suae - at .... years old
affidati - an engaged couple
agnatiak - male line
agnatus - related on the paternal side
ambo - both
amita - paternal aunt
anno - in the year of
Anno Domini (AD) - in the year of our Lord
annuatim - annually
annus incipiens - New Year
anonymus - with no name
ante meridianum - before noon
apud - near
ascendens - ascendancy, ascendants
ascendentes - ancestors
ava, avia - grandmother
avia materna - grandmother on the maternal side
avia paterna - grandmother on the paternal side
avunculus - uncle on the paternal side
avus - grandfather
avus maternus - grandfather on the maternal side
avus paternus - grandfather on the paternal side
avi,avorum - grandparents
baptizatus, baptisatus - baptized
castellanus - Lord
nuptias celebrare - to marry
circa, circiter - about
civis - citizen
coemeterium - cemetery
cognatiak - female line
comes - Count(e), Earl
commater - female sponsor
commorans apud - to reside at
commorare - to reside
communion - Communion
compater - male sponsor
confirmatio - confirmed
confitens - communicant
coniunx - married person, spouse
conjugatus - married, and also husband
conjugata - wife
conjugens - the couple
conjux - husband or spouse
connubium - marriage
consanguineus - blood related
copulatus - married
curator - trustee or guardian
defunctus - dead
denatus - dead, deceased
deprecatrix - confessing woman
descendens - descendants
desponsatus - engaged
dictus - called (name)
dies - day
dies accepti baprismi - Christening Day
dies cop'ulationis - Wedding Day
dies mortis - day of death
dies natalis - birthday
dies sepulturae - burial day
domi baptisatus - Christened at home
Dominica - Sunday
dux - Duke
e matrimonia dimissa - repudiate wife
ecclesia - Church
elutus - baptized
eodem die - the same day
eorumdem - from the same parents
esto mihi - 7th Sunday before Easter
et - and, both
et alii (et al.) - and others
et cetera (etc., &c.) - and so forth
ex - from
exaudi - 6th Sunday after Easter
extraneus - foreign
familia - family
feria - workday
foemina - woman
filia, filiam - daughter
filia fratris - brothers daughter
filiaster - son-in-law (sometimes illegitimate)
filiastra - daughter-in-law (sometimes illegitimate)
filiola - young daughter
filius, filium - son
filiolus - young son
filius fratris - brothers son
foemina - woman
foreaneus - who is living outside of the enlosure
frater - brother
fraternus - nephew (son of brother or sister)
fratria - sister-in-law (wife of brother)
fratris filia - niece (daughter of a brother)
gemelli - twins
gener - son-in-law
genimus - twin
gener - son-in-law
gens - family
germanus - first cousin
glos - sister-in-law
hodie - today
hora - hour
humatus - buried
ibidem - same place
illegitimus - illegitimate
incola - resident
incertris patris - from uncertain father
infans - infant
in hac - In this, here
in loco - instead of
invocavit - first Sunday after Shrovetide
item - also, likewise, similarly
juvenis - young man
juvensis caelebs - unmarried man, bachelor
jevir - brother-in-law
ligatus - bound, joined, married
legitimus - legitimate
levante - witness
levir - brother-in-law
ligatus - joined, married, bound
magna - great
marita (fem.) - wife
maritus (masc.) - husband
mater - mother
materera - aunt on the maternal side
materera magna - great aunt on the maternal side
materera major - great great aunt on the maternal side
materfamilias - female head of the household
matrima - godmother
matrimonio iuncti - married
matrimonium - marriage
matrina - female sponsor
matrix - mother, grandmother
matrona - matron, lady, spouse
mensis (menses) - month(s)
mente captus - mental disorder
miles - Knight
militissa - daughter, spouse or widow of a Knight
morbus - sickness
mors - death
mortus - dead
natus - born
nepos - grandson, grandchild (could also mean nephew in some records)
nepos ex fratre - brothers son, nephew
nepotes - descendants
neptis - granddaughter (could also mean niece in some records)
neptis ex fratre - brothers daughter, niece
nihil nisi lana - in wool only
noblis - noble, nobility
nomen - name
nomine, (nom.) - by name
nota bene - take note
nothus - illegitimate child when the father is known
noverca - 2nd wife of the father
nupta (fem.) - spouse
nuptus (masc.) - spouse
nuptias celebrare - wedding celebration
nurus - daughter-in-law, wife of the son
obit - (he or she) died
obit sine prole (o.s.p) - (he or she) died without offspring
obiit - is deceased
obitus - death
obstetrix - midwife
octavius - eight son
olim - before
oppidanus - a Burgess of the Town
oppidum - a fortified town
orbus - orphan
oriundus - native of ...
parens - parent
parentes - parents
parochia - parish
partus - childbirth
parva - little
pascha - Easter
pastor loci (p.l.) - local Pastor
pater - father
patrina - godmother
patrinus - godfather
patrini - godparents
patruus - paternal uncle
pentecostes - Whitsun
peregrinus, peregrine - a traveller or gypsy;s child
pertinentia - adjacent
pestilentia - plague
pomeridiana (pom.) - afternoon (p.m.)
post humus - (born) after the death of the father
post meridianum - afternoon (p.m.)
posteri - grandchildren
posteritas - posterity
previgna - daughter of the first marriage
prevignus - son of the first marriage
pridie - previous day
primigenes - first born
primus - first
princeps - Prince
progenitus - firstborn
proavus - great-grandfather
proavia - great-grandmother
progener - husband of the grandaughter
progenies - race, line, lineage
progenitus - first born
proles - posteriority
pronepos - great grandson
proneptis - great grandaughter
prone - near by, close
puella - child - girl
puellus - child - boy
puer - child
pueri - children
puerpera - mother, a newly delivered mother
puerperium - childbirth
recans (rec.) - (at) present
relicta - widow
religio - religion
renatus - batpized, reborn
requiscat in pace - rest in peace
residet - to live in
senex - old man
septimus - seventh child
sepultus - buried
sextus - sixth child
sic - so, thus
sine sacramentis - without the sacraments
socvusus - mother-in-law
socor - father-in-law
socrus - mother-in-law
socvusus - mother-in-law
solemnia natalicia Christi - Christmas
soror - sister
sororis filia - sisters daughter
sororis filius - sisters son
spinster - unmarried woman
sponsa - fiancee
sponsus - fiance
spurius - illegitimate
spurus - illegitimate child (bastard)
subita - abrupt, sudden
sub ministero - I, have officiated
superstes - surviving or still living
susceptor - godparent
suseptrix - godmother
sylvanus - of the woodland
testes - witnesses
testes baptismi - witnesses at baptism
thorax - suckling
thorus - bed
ultimus, ultimo (ult.) - last, final
uterinus - born of the same mother
uxor (ux, vx) - wife
Verbi Dei Minister (V.D.M.) - Minister of the Word of God
vevir - brother-in-law
vide - see
videlicet (viz, vitz) - namely
vidua - widow
vidus - widow
viduus - widower
vigilia - the eve of festivity
villicus - village, townsman
vir - husband
virgo - an unmarried girl
vita - life
vulgo - called (name)
Numbers
primo - 1
secundo - 2
tertio - 3
quatro - 4
quinto - 5
sexto - 6
septimo - 7
octavo - 8
nono - 9
decimo - 10
undecimo - 11
duodecimo - 12
decimo tertio - 13
decimo quatro - 14
decimo quinto - 15
decimo sextio - 16
decimo septimo - 17
decimo octavo - 18
decimonon or undevismo - 19
vicesimo or vigesimo - 20
vicesimo primo - 21
vicesimo nono or undetricesimo - 29
tricesimo or trigesmo - 30