uxorius
Latin
Etymology
Derived from uxor (“wife”) + -ius (adjective-forming suffix).
Adjective
uxōrius (feminine uxōria, neuter uxōrium); first/second-declension adjective
- belonging to a wife
- pertaining to or characteristic of a wife: wifish, wifely, wifey
- overly fond of, devoted to, or submissive to one’s wife: uxorious, doting
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | uxōrius | uxōria | uxōrium | uxōriī | uxōriae | uxōria | |
Genitive | uxōriī | uxōriae | uxōriī | uxōriōrum | uxōriārum | uxōriōrum | |
Dative | uxōriō | uxōriō | uxōriīs | ||||
Accusative | uxōrium | uxōriam | uxōrium | uxōriōs | uxōriās | uxōria | |
Ablative | uxōriō | uxōriā | uxōriō | uxōriīs | |||
Vocative | uxōrie | uxōria | uxōrium | uxōriī | uxōriae | uxōria |
Descendants
References
- “uxorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (2005), Oxford University Press