connubial

English

Etymology

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) from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho- (“to marry, to wed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/

Adjective

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, 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."

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13:

     Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• conjugal

Related terms

• nubile
• nuptial, nuptials

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin connūbiālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konnuˈbjal/ [kõn.nuˈβ̞jal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: con‧nu‧bial

Adjective

connubial m or f (masculine and feminine plural connubiales)

1. connubial

Related terms

• connubio

 

Further reading

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