connubium

Latin

Noun

connūbium n (genitive connūbiī or connūbī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	connūbium	connūbia
Genitive	connūbiī connūbī¹	connūbiōrum
Dative	connūbiō	connūbiīs
Accusative	connūbium	connūbia
Ablative	connūbiō	connūbiīs
Vocative	connūbium	connūbia

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

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