puisne
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puisne
- /ˈpjuːni/ UK
- /ˈpjuni/ US
Sounds like puny · Rhymes with -uːni
Where it comes from
From Anglo-Norman puisné (“later, more recent; junior; weakly”) [and other forms] and Middle French puisné (“born after (a specified person); younger, youngest; one who is born after (a specified person)”) (modern French puîné (“cadet (born after a sibling); a cadet (someone born after a sibling)”)), from puis (“after; since”) + né (“born”). Puis is derived from Old French pois (“after; since”), from Vulgar Latin *postius (“afterward”), from Latin posteā (“afterwards; hereafter; thereafter; next, then”), from post (“after; since”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pós (“afterwards”)) + ea (“these (things)”); and né from Latin nātus (“born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”).
adjective more puisne · most puisne · puny
- Younger; junior.
- Insignificant, petty; ineffectual. it is not conceptible that in an infinite , or indeed in a very long period of Revolutions of Mankind , those or any things of this kind discoverable would have been of so late a puiſne a discovery
- Inferior in rank, as designation of any justice, judge etc. other than the most senior. the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer
- Coming later in time; subsequent, secondary. a puisne date to eternity
noun puisnes
- A person of puisne rank.
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