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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

 

 

 

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