matrimonium

Latin

Alternative forms

• mātrumōnium

Etymology

From māter (“mother”) +‎ -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with pātrimōnium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maː.triˈmoː.ni.um/, [mäːt̪rɪˈmoːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.triˈmo.ni.um/, [mät̪riˈmɔːnium]

Noun

mātrimōnium n (genitive mātrimōniī or mātrimōnī); second declension

1. marriage, matrimony, wedlock.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mātrimōnium	mātrimōnia
Genitive	mātrimōniī mātrimōnī1	mātrimōniōrum
Dative	mātrimōniō	mātrimōniīs
Accusative	mātrimōnium	mātrimōnia
Ablative	mātrimōniō	mātrimōniīs
Vocative	mātrimōnium	mātrimōnia

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

Synonyms

• (wedlock): cōnūbium, thalamus

Derived terms

• mātrimōniālis

Related terms

• māter
• mātercula
• māterfamiliās
• māternitās
• māternus

• mātertera
• mātrālis
• mātrēscō
• mātrīcālis
• mātricīda

• mātricīdium
• mātrīcula
• mātrīculārius
• mātrimus
• mātrīx

• mātrōna
• mātrōnālis
• mātrōnātus
• mātruēlis

Descendants

• Catalan: matrimoni
• English: matrimony
• Galician: matrimonio
• Italian: matrimonio
• Occitan: matrimòni

• Old French: matremoigne, matremoine
  • French: matrimoine
• Portuguese: matrimónio
• Romanian: matrimoniu
• Spanish: matrimonio

References

• “matrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “matrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• matrimonium 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)
• matrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to marry (of the man): ducere aliquam in matrimonium
    
  • to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonio or in matrimonium collocare or simply filiam alicui collocare
    
  • to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonium dare
    
• “matrimonium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “matrimonium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin