Daily Ancestororiundus
Oriundus is Latin for born in or descended from; oriundus ex followed by a place tells you where a person came from.
Oriundus means descended from or born in. It is usually followed by ex or de and a place: oriundus ex Neudorf, a native of Neudorf. The feminine is oriunda.
This is one of the most useful words in a marriage entry, because brides and grooms from other parishes are named with their home place. That place leads you to the register where their own baptism should be.
As seen in a recordLatin marriage register, bride's line, 1790s
Sponsa Anna Weiss, oriunda ex pago Hof, filia Georgii
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Daily Ancestor. "oriundus." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/latin/oriundus. Last checked 2026-10-10.