connubial

1650s, from Latin connūbiālis, from connūbium (“marriage, wedlock”) (variants of cōnūbiālis (“pertaining to wedlock”), from cōnūbium (“marriage, wedlock”)) from com- (“together”) (English com-) + nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”) (from which nubile)[1] from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho- (“to marry, to wed”).

IPA^(key): /kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/

connubial (comparative more connubial, superlative most connubial)

1. Of or relating to the state of being married.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, pages 179–180:

     "For my part," continued the Duke of Wharton, "I hold that the connubial system of this country is a complete mistake. The only happy marriages I ever heard of are those in some Eastern story I once read, where the king marries a new wife every night, and cuts off her head in the morning."

Particularly used in fixed phrases, such as “connubial bliss”, “connubial love”, “connubial relations”, and “connubial bed”.

• conjugal

• nubile
• nuptial, nuptials

connubial (plural connubiales)

1. connubial

• “connubial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014