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uxor

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Interlingua

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Noun

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uxor (plural uxores)

  1. wife

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *uksōr which is of unknown origin.

There have been attempts to connect it with either Old Armenian ամուսին (amusin)[1][2] or Latvian uõsis (father-in-law) / Lithuanian uošvė (mother-in-law), but these terms have generally accepted etymologies that leave little ground for comparison with the Latin term.

Ossetian ус (us, woman) is usually compared with Sanskrit योषा (yóṣā, girl, young woman) rather than with uxor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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uxor f (genitive uxōris); third declension

  1. a wife, a spouse, a consort

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative uxor uxōrēs
genitive uxōris uxōrum
dative uxōrī uxōribus
accusative uxōrem uxōrēs
ablative uxōre uxōribus
vocative uxor uxōrēs

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References

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  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “uxor”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, pages 758–759
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ամուսին”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 160–161
  • uxor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • uxor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • uxor 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 uxorem
    • to be a married man: uxorem habere (Verr. 3. 33. 76)
    • to separate from, divorce (of the man): divortium facere cum uxore
    • with wife and child: cum uxoribus et liberis
  • uxor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers