subnuba

Latin

Etymology

sub- (“under, in place of”) +‎ nūbō (“I get married to”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsub.nu.ba/, [ˈs̠ʊbnʊbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsub.nu.ba/, [ˈsubnubä]

Noun

subnuba f (genitive subnubae); first declension

1. a rival
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, The Heroines 6.151-154:

     Mēdēae Mēdēa forem! quodsī quid ab altō
     jūstus adest vōtīs Jūpiter ille meīs,
     quod gemit Hypsipylē, lectī quoque subnuba nostrī
     maereat et lēgēs sentiat ipsa suās.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	subnuba	subnubae
Genitive	subnubae	subnubārum
Dative	subnubae	subnubīs
Accusative	subnubam	subnubās
Ablative	subnubā	subnubīs
Vocative	subnuba	subnubae

Related terms

• prōnuba
• innuba
• cōnubium
• nuptiae
• nūbilis
• innuptus

References

• “subnuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• subnuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• subnuba in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung