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Latin
Etymology
From māter (“mother”) + -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with patrimōnium.
Pronunciation
Noun
mātrimōnium n (genitive mātrimōniī or mātrimōnī); second declension
- marriage, matrimony, wedlock.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “matrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “matrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- matrimonium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- matrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to marry (of the man): ducere aliquam in matrimonium
- to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonio or in matrimonium collocare or simply filiam alicui collocare
- to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonium dare
- “matrimonium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “matrimonium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin