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conubium
conubium
Latin
Alternative forms
- connūbium (less correctly)
Noun
cōnūbium n (genitive cōnūbiī); second declension
- marriage, wedlock
- (in the plural) ceremony of marriage
- (poetic) sexual union; confer coniugium
- (of plants) an engrafting
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cōnūbium | cōnūbia |
| genitive | cōnūbiī | cōnūbiōrum |
| dative | cōnūbiō | cōnūbiīs |
| accusative | cōnūbium | cōnūbia |
| ablative | cōnūbiō | cōnūbiīs |
| vocative | cōnūbium | cōnūbia |
Derived terms
- Castī connūbiī (of chaste wedlock)
- cōnūbiālis
Descendants
See also
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “conubium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- conubium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers