conubium

Latin

Alternative forms

• connūbium (less correctly)

Etymology

From com- + nūbō (“I marry”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koːˈnuː.bi.um/, [koːˈnuːbiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈnu.bi.um/, [koˈnuːbium]

Noun

cōnūbium n (genitive cōnūbiī or cōnūbī); second declension

1. marriage, wedlock
2. (in the plural) ceremony of marriage
3. (poetic) sexual union; confer coniugium
4. (of plants) an engrafting

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnūbium	cōnūbia
Genitive	cōnūbiī cōnūbī1	cōnūbiōrum
Dative	cōnūbiō	cōnūbiīs
Accusative	cōnūbium	cōnūbia
Ablative	cōnūbiō	cōnūbiīs
Vocative	cōnūbium	cōnūbia

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

Derived terms

• Castī connūbiī (of chaste wedlock)
• cōnūbiālis

Descendants

• English: connubial (via connūbiālis)
• Italian: connubio

See also

• coniugium

References

• “conubium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conubium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conubium 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)
• conubium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “conubium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers