connubium

Latin

Noun

connūbium n (genitive connūbiī or connūbī); second declension

1. Alternative form of cōnūbium ("marriage", "wedlock"), it is considered less correct.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	connūbium	connūbia
Genitive	connūbiī connūbī1	connūbiōrum
Dative	connūbiō	connūbiīs
Accusative	connūbium	connūbia
Ablative	connūbiō	connūbiīs
Vocative	connūbium	connūbia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Castī connūbiī (of chaste wedlock)

Descendants

• English: connubial (via connūbiālis)

References

• “connubium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “connubium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin