progenies
See also: progènies
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proːˈɡe.ni.eːs/, [proːˈɡɛnieːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈd͡ʒe.ni.es/, [proˈd͡ʒɛːnies]
Noun
prōgeniēs f (genitive prōgeniēī); fifth declension
- race, family, progeny, lineage, descent
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.19–20:
- Prōgeniem sed enim Trōiānō ā sanguine dūcī,
audierat, Tyriās ōlim quae verteret arcēs.- But indeed – From the blood of Troy was to issue a race of men,
[so] she had heard, [a people] which one day would overthrow this Tyrian citadel.
(The goddess Juno resented the descendants of Troy who would later found Rome, which one day would supersede her beloved Carthage; the Carthaginians had come from Tyre. Note: This usage of audierat is an abbreviated form of audiverat, “she had heard.”)
- But indeed – From the blood of Troy was to issue a race of men,
- Prōgeniem sed enim Trōiānō ā sanguine dūcī,
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “progenies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “progenies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- progenies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- progenies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
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