premarital

English

Alternative forms

• præmarital (archaic)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Proto-Italic *prai

Proto-Italic *prai-

Latin prae-lbor.

Middle English pre-

English pre-

English marital

English premarital

From pre- + marital.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

premarital (not comparable)

1. Before marriage; before getting married.

   Premarital sex is now far more common than it was in the 1920s.

Synonyms

• antemarital
• antenuptial
• prenuptial

Derived terms

• premaritally

Translations

before one's marriage

• Armenian: նախամուսնական (naxamusnakan)
• Belarusian: дашлюбны m (dašljubny)
• Bulgarian: предбрачен (predbračen)
• Catalan: prematrimonial
• Chinese: Mandarin: 婚前的 (hūnqiándē)
• Czech: předmanželský (cs) m
• Danish: førægteskabelig
• Dutch: voorhuwelijks (nl), voorechtelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: aŭtaŭedziĝa
• Finnish: esiaviollinen (fi)
• French: prénuptial (fr)
• German: vorehelich (de)
• Greek: προγαμιαίος (el) (progamiaíos)
• Hungarian: házasság előtti
• Italian: prematrimoniale
• Polish: przedmałżeński (pl)
• Portuguese: pré-nupcial, premarital, prematrimonial
• Russian: предбра́чный (ru) (predbráčnyj), добра́чный (ru) (dobráčnyj)
• Spanish: premarital
• Swedish: föräktenskaplig
• Ukrainian: дошлю́бний (došljúbnyj)

Noun

premarital (uncountable)

1. (slang) Ellipsis of premarital sex.

Portuguese

Adjective

premarital m or f (plural premaritais)

1. premarital (before one’s marriage)

   Synonyms: pré-nupcial, prematrimonial