connubium

Latin

Noun

connū̆bium n (genitive connū̆biī or connū̆bī); second declension

1. Alternative form of cōnūbium ("marriage", "wedlock").

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	connū̆bium	connū̆bia
genitive	connū̆biī connū̆bī1	connū̆biōrum
dative	connū̆biō	connū̆biīs
accusative	connū̆bium	connū̆bia
ablative	connū̆biō	connū̆biīs
vocative	connū̆bium	connū̆bia

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

Derived terms

• Castī connūbiī (of chaste wedlock)

Descendants

• →⇒ English: connubial
• → Italian: connubio

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