conubium

Latin

Alternative forms

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

  1. marriage, wedlock
  2. (in the plural) ceremony of marriage
  3. (poetic) sexual union; confer coniugium
  4. (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

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 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
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