bigamy

English

Etymology

From Old French bigamie, from Latin bigamia, bigamus (“twice married”), from bis (“twice”) + Ancient Greek γάμος (gamos, “marriage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɪɡəmi/

Noun

bigamy (plural bigamies)

1. The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously
2. (ecclesiastical) A second marriage

Synonyms

• (a second marriage): digamy, deuterogamy

Translations

the state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously

Arabic: (polyandry) تعدد الأزواج (ar) (ta3áddud al-'azwaaj) m., (polygyny) تعدد الزوجات (ar) (ta3addud al-zawjaat) m. Bulgarian: двуженство (bg) Catalan: bigàmia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 重婚 (cmn) (chónghūn) Danish: bigami (da) Esperanto: bigamio (eo) French: bigamie (fr) f. German: Bigamie (de) f.

Japanese: 重婚 (ja) (じゅうこん, jūkon) Latvian: divlaulība (lv) Persian: (two wives) دو زن داری (fa) (dô zan dâri) Polish: bigamia (pl) f. Portuguese: bigamia (pt) f. Romanian: bigamie (ro) Russian: двоежёнство (ru) (dvoježónstvo) n., бигамия (ru) (bigamíja) f. Scottish Gaelic: dà-chèileachas (gd) m. Swedish: bigami (sv) Ukrainian: бігамія (uk) f.

a second marriage

Bulgarian: втори брак (bg)

Catalan: bigàmia (ca) f.

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Serbo-Croatian: dvòžēnstvo (hr) n., bigàmija (hr) f.

Derived terms

• bigamist
• bigamous

Related terms

• monogamy
• polygamy

See also

• bi-
• -gamy
• polyamory
• polyandry
• polygyny
• plural marriage