conubium
Latin
Alternative forms
- connūbium (less correctly)
Etymology
From con- + nūbō (“I marry”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koːˈnuː.bi.um/, [koːˈnuːbiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈnu.bi.um/, [koˈnuːbium]
- (poetic form to fit certain meters) (Classical) IPA(key): /koːˈnu.bi.um/, [koːˈnʊbiʊ̃ˑ]
Noun
cōnūbium n (genitive cōnūbiī or cōnūbī); second declension
- marriage, wedlock
- (in the plural) ceremony of marriage
- (poetic) sexual union; confer coniugium
- (of plants) an engrafting
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cōnūbium | cōnūbia |
| Genitive | cōnūbiī cōnūbī1 | cōnūbiōrum |
| Dative | cōnūbiō | cōnūbiīs |
| Accusative | cōnūbium | cōnūbia |
| Ablative | cōnūbiō | cōnūbiīs |
| Vocative | cōnūbium | cōnūbia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- Castī connūbiī (of chaste wedlock)
- cōnūbiālis
See also
- coniugium
References
- “conubium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conubium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conubium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- conubium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “conubium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers