pronuba

Italian

Noun

pronuba f (plural pronube)

1. matchmaker (female)

Adjective

pronuba

1. feminine singular of pronubo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈproː.nu.ba/, [ˈproːnʊbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.nu.ba/, [ˈprɔːnubä]

Noun

prōnuba f (genitive prōnubae); first declension

1. maid of honor, matron of honor, one who conducts the bride to the bridal chamber
2. 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōnuba	prōnubae
Genitive	prōnubae	prōnubārum
Dative	prōnubae	prōnubīs
Accusative	prōnubam	prōnubās
Ablative	prōnubā	prōnubīs
Vocative	prōnuba	prōnubae

Related terms

• prōnubus

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