maritus

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Brunei Malay

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maritus/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ri‧tus

Noun

maritus

  1. pili, edible nut of the tropical tree Canarium ovatum

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps related with mās (“male, a male”). According to de Vaan from Proto-Indo-European *morei-, *mori- or *morih₂- (“young woman”), developing into a pre-Italic *mārī-, with possessive *-to-. Compare Welsh morwyn (“girl, maiden”) (< Proto-Celtic *moreinā-), Welsh merch (“daughter”) (< Proto-Celtic *merkā), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy, girl”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “young man; foal”), Bactrian μαρηγο (marēgo, “servant”) (< Proto-Indo-European *meri̯o-), Lithuanian merga (“girl”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mergh-eh₂-), Lithuanian marti (“daughter-in-law”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mor-t-iH-).

Pronunciation

Adjective

marītus (feminine marīta, neuter marītum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. marital, matrimonial, conjugal

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative marītus marīta marītum marītī marītae marīta
Genitive marītī marītae marītī marītōrum marītārum marītōrum
Dative marītō marītō marītīs
Accusative marītum marītam marītum marītōs marītās marīta
Ablative marītō marītā marītō marītīs
Vocative marīte marīta marītum marītī marītae marīta

Noun

marītus m (genitive marītī, feminine marīta); second declension

  1. husband, married man
    Synonyms: coniūnx, vir
    Antonyms: marīta, uxor, nūpta, mulier
  2. (poetic) lover
  3. (of animals) male

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative marītus marītī
Genitive marītī marītōrum
Dative marītō marītīs
Accusative marītum marītōs
Ablative marītō marītīs
Vocative marīte marītī

Descendants

Related terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “marītus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • “maritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “maritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • maritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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