"primogeniture" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: primogenitures [plural]
Etymology: From French, from Late Latin primogenitura, from Latin primus (“first”) + genitura (“birth”) (from genitus, past participle of gignere). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|-}} French, {{uder|en|LL.|primogenitura}} Late Latin primogenitura, {{uder|en|la|primus||first}} Latin primus (“first”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} primogeniture (countable and uncountable, plural primogenitures)
  1. The state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents): անդրանիկություն (andranikutʻyun) (Armenian), първородство (pǎrvorodstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 長子身份 (Chinese Mandarin), 长子身份 (zhǎngzǐ shēnfèn) (Chinese Mandarin), esikoisuus (Finnish), aînesse [feminine] (French), primogéniture [feminine] (French), morgado [masculine] (Galician), Erstgeborenheit [feminine] (German), העדפת הבכור (Hebrew), primogenitura [feminine] (Italian), прворо́дство (prvoródstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), mātāmuatanga (Maori), pierworództwo [neuter] (Polish), primogenitura [feminine] (Polish), primogenitura [feminine] (Spanish), mayorazgo [masculine] (Spanish), förstfödd (Swedish), перворі́дність (pervorídnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), старши́нство (staršýnstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
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  2. The principle that the eldest child, traditionally the eldest male, has an exclusive right of inheritance. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child): անդրանիկություն (andranikutʻyun) (Armenian), 長子繼承制 (Chinese Mandarin), 长子继承制 (zhǎngzǐ jìchéngzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), eerstgeboorterecht [neuter] (Dutch), esikoisoikeus (Finnish), droit d’aînesse [masculine] (French), morgado [masculine] (Galician), Erstgeburtsrecht [neuter] (German), Primogenitur [feminine] (German), primogenitúra (Hungarian), primogenitura [feminine] (Italian), прворо́дство (prvoródstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), primogenitura [feminine] (Polish), primogenitura [feminine] (Portuguese), первородство (pervorodstvo) (Russian), primogenitura [feminine] (Spanish), mayorazgo [masculine] (Spanish), förstfödslorätt (Swedish), primogenitur (Swedish), старши́нство (staršýnstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-primogeniture-en-noun-cLWUfAQe Disambiguation of 'exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child': 3 67 30
  3. (countable) An instance of such a right of inheritance, established by custom or law. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-primogeniture-en-noun-aSjFo8Sa
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: absolute primogeniture, agnatic primogeniture, matrilineal primogeniture, uterine primogeniture Related terms: primogenitor, porphyrogeniture

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1835, Timothy Winterbottom, A Letter to Isaac Tomkins and Peter Jenkins on Primogeniture, 5th edition, page 7:",
          "text": "On these grounds, I contend the mere possession of large property, which is all that primogeniture insures, is by no means a sufficient and unobjectionable qualification for a legislator.",
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          "ref": "2003, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium:",
          "text": "Anglo-Saxon kings did not succeed on the basis of primogeniture. All the kings offspring were known as aethelings -- throneworthy -- and from this gene pool the royal family would select the aetheling who seemed best qualified for the job.",
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          "ref": "2011, Zouheir Jamoussi, Primogeniture and Entail in England: A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature, page 10:",
          "text": "Primogeniture acting as a law of inheritance in the case of intestacy applied in fact to all real property, however humble. Movables and personal property in this context were subject to equal division, the elder son inheriting all real property as well as his share of the personal property.",
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          "ref": "2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "He writes as if he is the first privileged male to notice the unfairness of primogeniture (the “hierarchy”, as he likes to call it with sinister emphasis).",
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          "ref": "1818, The Annual Register for the Year 1817, volume 59, page 142:",
          "text": "The King of Sardinia, by a decree of the 9th of Dec. has abolished—\n1. The prohibition against the erection of primogenitures and feudal rights, enacted by the 9th section of the edict of the 29th of July 1797, or by any other law; restricting, however, to those primogenitures and majorats only which shall be erected in favour of persons[…].",
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          "ref": "1860, American State Papers, page 704:",
          "text": "All primogenitures, trusts, rights of presentation, and every other description of entail on real property, movables, or fixtures, rents, annuities, seigneuries, or of any other kind whatsoever, are suppressed, which are from henceforward restored to the class of absolutely free.",
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          "ref": "1906, John Sergeant Wise, A Treatise on American Citizenship, published 1997, page 95:",
          "text": "The American system of land tenures, the abolition of entails and primogenitures, and our methods of transfer of real estate, are all anti-English in their origin.",
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        "An instance of such a right of inheritance, established by custom or law."
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      "sense": "antonym(s) of “inheritance by first-born child”",
      "word": "ultimogeniture"
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      "sense": "antonym(s) of “inheritance by first-born child”",
      "word": "postremogeniture"
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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
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    {
      "word": "absolute primogeniture"
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      "word": "agnatic primogeniture"
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      "word": "primogenitor"
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      "word": "porphyrogeniture"
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          "ref": "1835, Timothy Winterbottom, A Letter to Isaac Tomkins and Peter Jenkins on Primogeniture, 5th edition, page 7:",
          "text": "On these grounds, I contend the mere possession of large property, which is all that primogeniture insures, is by no means a sufficient and unobjectionable qualification for a legislator.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2003, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium:",
          "text": "Anglo-Saxon kings did not succeed on the basis of primogeniture. All the kings offspring were known as aethelings -- throneworthy -- and from this gene pool the royal family would select the aetheling who seemed best qualified for the job.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Zouheir Jamoussi, Primogeniture and Entail in England: A Survey of Their History and Representation in Literature, page 10:",
          "text": "Primogeniture acting as a law of inheritance in the case of intestacy applied in fact to all real property, however humble. Movables and personal property in this context were subject to equal division, the elder son inheriting all real property as well as his share of the personal property.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "He writes as if he is the first privileged male to notice the unfairness of primogeniture (the “hierarchy”, as he likes to call it with sinister emphasis).",
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          "ref": "1818, The Annual Register for the Year 1817, volume 59, page 142:",
          "text": "The King of Sardinia, by a decree of the 9th of Dec. has abolished—\n1. The prohibition against the erection of primogenitures and feudal rights, enacted by the 9th section of the edict of the 29th of July 1797, or by any other law; restricting, however, to those primogenitures and majorats only which shall be erected in favour of persons[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, American State Papers, page 704:",
          "text": "All primogenitures, trusts, rights of presentation, and every other description of entail on real property, movables, or fixtures, rents, annuities, seigneuries, or of any other kind whatsoever, are suppressed, which are from henceforward restored to the class of absolutely free.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, John Sergeant Wise, A Treatise on American Citizenship, published 1997, page 95:",
          "text": "The American system of land tenures, the abolition of entails and primogenitures, and our methods of transfer of real estate, are all anti-English in their origin.",
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        }
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        "An instance of such a right of inheritance, established by custom or law."
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        "(countable) An instance of such a right of inheritance, established by custom or law."
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "andranikutʻyun",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "word": "անդրանիկություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pǎrvorodstvo",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "първородство"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "word": "長子身份"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǎngzǐ shēnfèn",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "word": "长子身份"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "word": "esikoisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aînesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "primogéniture"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morgado"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Erstgeborenheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "word": "העדפת הבכור"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "primogenitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "prvoródstvo",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прворо́дство"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "word": "mātāmuatanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pierworództwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "primogenitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "primogenitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mayorazgo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "word": "förstfödd"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pervorídnistʹ",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "перворі́дність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "staršýnstvo",
      "sense": "state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "старши́нство"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "andranikutʻyun",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "word": "անդրանիկություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "word": "長子繼承制"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǎngzǐ jìchéngzhì",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "word": "长子继承制"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "eerstgeboorterecht"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "word": "esikoisoikeus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "droit d’aînesse"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morgado"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Erstgeburtsrecht"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Primogenitur"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "word": "primogenitúra"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "primogenitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "prvoródstvo",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прворо́дство"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "primogenitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "primogenitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pervorodstvo",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "word": "первородство"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "primogenitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mayorazgo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "word": "förstfödslorätt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "word": "primogenitur"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "staršýnstvo",
      "sense": "exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest child",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "старши́нство"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "primogeniture"
  ],
  "word": "primogeniture"
}

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