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From nū̆pta(“married, wedded; covered, veiled”) + -iae(nominative plural inflection of -ia). For the plural morphology, compare other festival names such as Sāturnālia as well as the word fēriae(“festival”).[1]
^ Paolo Acquaviva (2008) Lexical Plurals: A Morphosemantic Approach, Oxford University Press, page 20.
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nūbō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 417
Further reading
“nuptiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“nuptiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
nuptiae 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)
nuptiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“nuptiae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“nuptiae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin