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Italian
Noun
pronuba f (plural pronube)
- matchmaker (female)
Adjective
pronuba
- feminine singular of pronubo
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
prōnuba f (genitive prōnubae); first declension
- maid of honor, matron of honor, one who conducts the bride to the bridal chamber
- Pronuba Iuno: Juno as Queen of Marriage, Goddess of Marriage
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.166–167:
- Prīma et Tellūs et prōnuba Iūnō / dant signum .
- And now Primal Tellus and Juno, Queen of Marriage, give the signal.
(See: Tellus; Juno; serving here as the “auspices nuptiarum” who read omens prior to a Roman wedding.)
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “pronuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pronuba 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)
- “pronuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pronuba”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “pronuba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin