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Latin
Etymology
From ūnus (one) + vir (man).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
univira f (genitive univirae); first declension
- (Late Latin) Woman that has only had one husband
- Antonym: multivira
In nuptiis Romanis, pronubam esse univiram oportuit.- In Roman weddings, it was proper for the pronuba to be a woman who had only had one husband.
Minucius Felix,
Octavius 22:
- alia sacra coronat univira, alia multivira, et magna religione conquiritur quae plura possit adulteria numerare.
- Some sacred places are crowned by a woman married once, others by a woman married many times, and those who are able to count more adulteries are sought after with religious zeal.
Tertullian,
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 8:
- Denique monogamia apud ethnicos ita in summo honore est, ut et virginibus legitime nubentibus univira pronuba adhibeatur
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
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1851, Joseph Esmond Riddle, A copious and critical English-Latin lexicon, founded on the German-Latin dictionaries of Dr. William Freund, London: London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, page 1318: