germanus

See also: Germanus and ģermāņus

Latin

From germen (“sprout, bud”), perhaps for *germ(i)nānus.^[1] Not to be confused with the unrelated Germānus.

germānus (feminine germāna, neuter germānum, adverb germānē); first/second-declension adjective

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	germānus	germāna	germānum	germānī	germānae	germāna
genitive	germānī	germānae	germānī	germānōrum	germānārum	germānōrum
dative	germānō	germānae	germānō	germānīs
accusative	germānum	germānam	germānum	germānōs	germānās	germāna
ablative	germānō	germānā	germānō	germānīs
vocative	germāne	germāna	germānum	germānī	germānae	germāna

germānus m (genitive germānī, feminine germāna); second declension

Ibero-Romance:
- Extremaduran: ermanu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: irmão, yrmão, hermão, irmao
  - Galician: irmán, ermao, irmao, hermao (Eonavian)
  - Portuguese: irmão (see there for further descendants)
- Old Leonese: ermano
  - Asturian: hermanu
  - Leonese: hermanu
  - Mirandese: armano
  - → Fala: hermanu
- Old Navarro-Aragonese:
  - Aragonese: chermano, chirmano, chirmán
- Old Spanish: ermano
  - Ladino: ermano
  - Spanish: hermano (see there for further descendants)
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: germà
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Italian: germano
- Venetan: zerman, xerman, đerman, darman, germàn
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: germanu, ghermanu, grammanu, zermanu
Borrowings:
- → Portuguese: germano
- → Spanish: germán, germano

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “gignō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 260-1: “The noun germen < *gen-men lies at the basis of germānus < *germn-āno-, even if the noun is attested significantly later than the adj.”