conubium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conubium, conubi(i):
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
marriage/wedlock; right to marry; act/ceremony of marriage (usu. pl.);; intermarriage between two groups of people/instance of it; right to intermarry;; married partner/spouse, husband/wife; sexual union; ingrafting (plants);
acc. sg.gen. pl.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...vocent, set Nerienem, cum quidem Mavorti es in conubium data. XVII. Ita autem se numerus huiusce versus habet..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...praemonstrante resolui, si dulces furias et lamentabile matris conubium gauisus ini noctemque nefandam saepe tuli natosque tibi, scis..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...intacta manet, dum inculta senescit; cum par conubium maturo tempore adepta est, cara viro magis et minus..."Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...conferri, ibi magistratus creari iussit. pronuntiauit deinde neque conubium neque commercium agrorum aedificiorumque inter se placere cuiquam extra..."Liber XLIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...militibus Romanis et ex Hispanis mulieribus, cum quibus conubium non esset, natos se memorantes, supra quattuor milia hominum..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...modo erat in mora ne extemplo deficerent, quod conubium vetustum multas familias claras ac potentes Romanis miscuerat..."Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...easdem opes habere, eandem tamen patriam incolere? Altera conubium petimus, quod finitimis externisque dari solet; nos quidem civitatem..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...feminis quoque asylum aperuissent; id enim demum compar conubium fore. Aegre id Romana pubes passa et haud dubie..."