pronuba

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Italian

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Noun

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pronuba f (plural pronube)

  1. matchmaker (female)

Adjective

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pronuba

  1. feminine singular of pronubo

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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prōnuba f (genitive prōnubae); first declension

  1. maid of honor, matron of honor, one who conducts the bride to the bridal chamber
  2. Pronuba Iuno: Juno as Queen of Marriage, Goddess of Marriage
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.166–167:
      [...] Prīma et Tellūs et prōnuba Iūnō / dant signum [...].
      And now Primal Tellus and Juno, Queen of Marriage, give the signal.
      (See: Tellus; Juno; serving here as the “auspices nuptiarum” who read omens prior to a Roman wedding.)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative prōnuba prōnubae
Genitive prōnubae prōnubārum
Dative prōnubae prōnubīs
Accusative prōnubam prōnubās
Ablative prōnubā prōnubīs
Vocative prōnuba prōnubae
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References

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  • pronuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pronuba 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)
  • pronuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pronuba”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • pronuba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin