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coniunx

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Etymology

Equivalent to coniungō +‎ -s or coniugō +‎ -s. Root cognate with Ancient Greek σύζυγος (súzugos).

Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *sǫprǫgъ.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔn.juːŋks]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔn.juŋks]

Noun

coniūnx m or f (genitive coniugis); third declension

spouse, married partner, i.e. husband or wife
Synonyms: nūpta, uxor, mulier, mātrōna, marītus, vir
- 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.497–498:
  Bacche, fidem praestā nec praefer amōribus ūllam
  coniugis, adsuēvī semper amāre virum.
  Remain faithful, Bacchus, and neither prefer any woman to the love
  of a wife, one accustomed to love her husband forever.
  (Ariadne denounces her husband's infidelity.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coniūnx	coniugēs
genitive	coniugis	coniugum
dative	coniugī	coniugibus
accusative	coniugem	coniugēs
ablative	coniuge	coniugibus
vocative	coniūnx	coniugēs

Descendants

→ Catalan: cònjuge
→ French: conjoint
→ Galician: cónxuxe
→ Italian: coniuge
→ Portuguese: cônjuge
→ Sicilian: cònjuci, cògnuci
→ Spanish: cónyuge

References

“conjunx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“coniunx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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