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Latin
Etymology
Equivalent to coniungō + -s or coniugō + -s.
Pronunciation
Noun
coniūnx m or f (genitive coniugis); third declension
- spouse, married partner, i.e. husband or wife
- Synonyms: nūpta, uxor, mulier, mātrōna, marītus, vir
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.497–498:
- Bacche, fidem praestā nec praefer amōribus ūllam
coniugis, adsuēvī semper amāre virum.- Remain faithful, Bacchus, and neither prefer any woman to the love
of a wife, one accustomed to love her husband forever.
(Ariadne denounces her husband's infidelity.)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “conjunx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “coniunx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers