Latin edit

Etymology edit

Feminine of spōnsus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

spōnsa f (genitive spōnsae); first declension

  1. bride
  2. fiancée (betrothed woman)

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative spōnsa spōnsae
Genitive spōnsae spōnsārum
Dative spōnsae spōnsīs
Accusative spōnsam spōnsās
Ablative spōnsā spōnsīs
Vocative spōnsa spōnsae

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References edit

  • sponsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sponsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sponsa 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)
  • sponsa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • sponsa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sponsa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Verb edit

sponsa

  1. inflection of sponse:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle