nuptiae

Latin

Etymology

From nūptus (“married, wedded; covered, veiled”) +‎ -iae (“nominative plural inflection of -ia”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːp.ti.ae̯/, [ˈnuːpt̪iäe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnup.t͡si.e/, [ˈnupt̪͡s̪ie]

Noun

nūptiae f pl (genitive nūptiārum); first declension (plural only)

1. wedding, marriage, nuptials

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	nūptiae
Genitive	nūptiārum
Dative	nūptiīs
Accusative	nūptiās
Ablative	nūptiīs
Vocative	nūptiae

Derived terms

• nūptiālis

Descendants

• Aromanian: numtã, numte
• → English: nuptials

• → Portuguese: núpcias
• Romanian: nuntă
• → Spanish: nupcias
• Vulgar Latin: *noptiae (see there for further descendants)

References

• “nuptiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nuptiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nuptiae 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)
• nuptiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nuptiae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nuptiae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin