A dictionary of Latin terms for the genealogist.
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| a, ab | from | garcio | boy/ servant/ groom | |
| ac | and | gardianus | churchwarden | |
| acuarius | needle maker | gemellue/ gemelli | female twins/male twins | |
| at | to/at/ in/for | gener | son-in-law | |
| adolescens | young man | generos|us/a | gentleman/ lady | |
| adultera | adulteress | genitores | parents | |
| adulter | adulterer | german|us/a | full brother/ sister | |
| adulterium | adultery | gnot|us/a | illigitimate | |
| adven|ae/us | of a stranger | hac/haec/hic | this | |
| advocatus | witness | homo | man | |
| aedilus | architect | hora | hour | |
| aedituus | church guardian | hortulanus | gardener | |
| aetas | age/period | humat|us/a | buried | |
| aetate minoris | Jnr. | id est | that is | |
| aetatis | of age | ignata quadem | a certain unknown woman | |
| affinitas | relative in-law | ignoti | illigitimate | |
| agricola | farmer | impotens ignotus | feeble minded | |
| alias | otherwise | primo/primus | on the first/first | |
| aliter | other/another | incola | inhabitant | |
| alius | student/inhabitant | infans | infant | |
| alumnus | tanner | ingenuus | freeman/yeoman | |
| alutarius | both | institor | peddlar/grocer | |
| ambo | stranger | inupta | not married | |
| amita | father's sister | jam | already/now | |
| amita magna | grandfather's sister | juramentus exhibitum fait | certificate was produced | |
| ancilla | maid | jurisconsultus | lawyer | |
| annutatim | annual | juvenis | young man/bachelor | |
| anonym|us/a | still born son/daughter | laborator | labourer | |
| antea | formerly | lanatus | clothed in wool | |
| antecessor | ancestor | laniator | butcher | |
| antedictus | aforesaid | lapicida | stone mason | |
| ant|e/i | before | laterarius | brick layer | |
| antiguus | old or senior | levens | God parent | |
| anus | old woman | liberi | freeman | |
| apothecarius | pharmacist | lictor | town official | |
| apud | nearby/in | ligatus | husband | |
| aquaria | water carrier | lignarius | joiner | |
| arbiter | witness | linifex | linen weaver | |
| archiater | physician | lorarius | saddler | |
| arcularius | carpenter | ludi magister | schoolmaster | |
| armentarius | herdsman | magna/magnus | great/senior/the elder | |
| armiger | gentleman | maritatio | marriage | |
| aromatorius | druggist/perfumist | martia | wife | |
| atque | and | mater | mother | |
| attornatus | attorney | materina | God mother | |
| aurifaber | goldsmith | maximus nato | first born | |
| auriga | driver | medicus | physician | |
| aurigifex | wagon maker | mendicus | beggar | |
| avi | ancestor/grandfathers | mens/mensis | month/ of the month | |
| avia | grandmother | mente captus | insane | |
| avunculus | mother's brother | marcator | merchant | |
| avunculus major | grandmother's brother | maretrix | harlot | |
| avus | grandfather | miles | soldier | |
| bacallarius | bachelor | militis proles | soldier's child | |
| ballistrarius | gun maker | minoris | junior | |
| baptisat|us/a | baptised | molendinarius | miller | |
| baro/baronis | freeman/barron | more nova | in the new manner(dates) | |
| bedellus | beadle | moritur | having died | |
| beneficium | slave | mortis | death | |
| bercarius | shepherd | mortu|us/a | deceased/died | |
| bibliopegus | book binder | mulier | woman | |
| bonus/bona | good/s | murarius | mason | |
| bordarius | tenant | natalis | birth | |
| brasiator | brewer | nativitas | birth | |
| caelebs/coelebs | single or widowed | natu minoris | youngest son | |
| calciator | shoemaker | natu majoris | oldest son | |
| camerarius | valet/groom | natus/nata | born (maiden name) | |
| capella | chapel | nauta | sailor | |
| capitaneus | captain | necon | and also/pauper | |
| capitus | head(of house) | nepos/nepus | grandchild/nephew | |
| captivus | prisoner | nomen | name | |
| carbonarius | coal miner | nono/nonus | on the nineth/nineth | |
| carecarius | carter/ploughman | nothus | bastard | |
| carnifex | hangman | nunc | now | |
| carpentarius | carpenter or cartwright | nuper | lately/formerly | |
| carta | deed or map | nupt fuerant | were married | |
| caup|o/oninis | innkeeper | obiit | he died | |
| caupona | inn | obstetrix | midwife | |
| chirotherarus | glover | olim | formerly | |
| chirurgus | surgeon | operarius | workman | |
| cingarus | gypsy | oppidum | town or city | |
| cippus | gravestone | orbus | orphan | |
| circa | about | origo | origin | |
| circumforancus | tinker | ovilius | shepherd | |
| civic | citizen | pagus | village | |
| claustrarius | locksmith | pannifex | cloth worker | |
| claviger | servant | paroch/parochia | parish | |
| clericus | clergyman | pastor | shepherd | |
| cocus | cook | pater | father | |
| coelebs | unmarried | pater supputatus | supposed father | |
| cognatus | blood relationship | patrini | God parents | |
| collega | guild/merchant/partner | patruelis | cousin on father's side | |
| colorator | dyer | patruus | uncle | |
| comes | count/earl | pellifex | furrier | |
| comitatus | county | pictor | painter | |
| comitissa | countess | pileator/pilio | hatter | |
| commater | God mother | piscator | fisherman | |
| commuratis | fornication | pistor | baker | |
| conditio | profession | platea | street | |
| conjug: | married | popul/a/i | common people | |
| conjugata | married woman | porcarius | swine herd | |
| conjugates | married couple | post humus | born after father's death | |
| conjunx | husband/wife | preco | watchman | |
| consobrin|us/a | cousin | pride | the day before | |
| contra | against | primo/primus | on the first/first | |
| contractio | marriage | procreatus | begotten | |
| coram | before/in the presence of | proles spuria | illegitimate descendant | |
| coriarius | tanner | prope | near | |
| corpus | body(dead) | propinquarius | kinsman | |
| coturius | cottager | puella | girl or maiden | |
| cuius suspectores | whose God parents | puer/puera | boy/girl | |
| cuius | whose | quart|us/o | fourth/on the fourth | |
| cuiusdam | of a certain | que | and | |
| cultellarius | cutler | qui/quae/quod | who/which/what | |
| culter | farmer/agricultral labourer | quint|us/o | fifth/on the fifth | |
| cum | with | quoque | also | |
| cuprifaber | coppersmith | relict|a/us | widow/widower | |
| curator | guardian | renatus | baptised | |
| currifex | cartwright | saponarius | soap maker | |
| d.s.p/d.sine prole | died without issue | sarto | tailor | |
| da | of or from | scolaris | scholar | |
| de prope | near | scorta | whore/harlot | |
| decim|us/o | tenth/on the tenth | scriba librarius | clerk | |
| defunctus | dead | secund|us/o | second/on the second | |
| denarius | coin/money | sellator | saddler | |
| denat|us/a | dead person | senex | old | |
| denunciatio | publication of banns | sepult|us/a | buried | |
| Deus | God | sigillum | seal | |
| dexter | right(side) | sine | without | |
| didymi | twins | sive/seu | or/if | |
| dies | day | sorbrin|us/a | cousin on mother's side | |
| die | on the day | socer | father-in-law | |
| die Lune | Monday | socrinus | brother-in-law | |
| die Morti | Tuesday | soror | sister | |
| die Mecurio | Wednesday | spons|us/a | husband/wife | |
| die Wodenis | Wedneday | sutor | shoemaker/cobbler | |
| die Jove | Thursday | taberna | inn | |
| die Veneri | Friday | terrenus | tenant | |
| die Saturno | Saturday | terti|us/o | third/on the third | |
| die Sole | Sunday | testis | witness | |
| dispensator | steward | textor | weaver | |
| dixit | said | tinctor | dyer | |
| doleator | cooper | tonsor | barber | |
| domesticus | domestic servant | tornator | turner | |
| domina | lady/mistress | trigemimi | triplets | |
| dominus | master | tumulatus | buried | |
| domus | house | um | the late | |
| dux | duke | undecimo | on the eleventh | |
| e /ex | from/out of | unicus | only | |
| ead /eodem | same(day)/on the same (day) | urbs | city | |
| ecclesia | church | ut assitur | as it is asserted | |
| emeritus | out of service/pentioned off | ut dicitur | as is said | |
| ensifex | armourer | uterque | both | |
| eques | calvary soldier | uxor/uxoris | wife | |
| est | it is | vagus | tramp | |
| et | and | variola | smallpox | |
| etiam | also/even | vedovus | widower | |
| faber | smith | vel | or | |
| faber fariarius | blacksmith | vetura/vetus | old | |
| faber lignarius | carpenter/charcoal burner | viator | travller/tramp | |
| famula | female servant | viciatus | bastard | |
| famulus | male servant | vicinus | neighbour/farmer | |
| femina | woman | vicor | insane | |
| fidejussor | God parent | vicus | village | |
| figulus | potter | vide | see | |
| filia/filius | daughter/son | vide infra | see below | |
| filiapopulae | illigitimate daughter | vide supra | see above | |
| filiaster | step-son/son-in-law | vivens | living | |
| filie/filiae | daughters | vidua | widow | |
| firmarius | tenant farmer | viduus | widower | |
| fodiator/fossor | ditch or grave digger | vietor | cooper | |
| forestarius | forester | villicus | baliff | |
| frater | brother | vir | man/husband | |
| fuerant | had been | virgo | maiden/virgin | |
| fuit | he/she/it/ was | vulgo | common | |
| funarius | rope maker | vz | wife | |
| w | wife or widow | |||
| zonarius | girdle maker |
