uxor
See also: & uxor
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
uxor (plural uxores)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *uksōr which is of unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Armenian ամուսին (amusin).[1][2] Alternatively a cognate to Latvian uõsis (“father-in-law”), Lithuanian uošvė (“mother-in-law”) and Ossetian ус (us, “woman”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuk.sor/, [ˈʊks̠ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈuk.sor/, [ˈuksor]
Noun edit
uxor f (genitive uxōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | uxor | uxōrēs |
| Genitive | uxōris | uxōrum |
| Dative | uxōrī | uxōribus |
| Accusative | uxōrem | uxōrēs |
| Ablative | uxōre | uxōribus |
| Vocative | uxor | uxōrēs |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Old French: oissor, oissour, uissor, usor
- Middle French: oisour (early)
- ⇒ Aromanian: ãnsor
- ⇒ Romanian: însura
- → Interlingua: uxor
- →⇒ English: uxoricide, uxorious, uxorial
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “uxor”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, pages 758–759
- ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ամուսին”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 160–161
- “uxor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “uxor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- uxor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to marry (of the man): ducere uxorem
- to be a married man: uxorem habere (Verr. 3. 33. 76)
- to separate from, divorce (of the man): divortium facere cum uxore
- with wife and child: cum uxoribus et liberis
- to marry (of the man): ducere uxorem
- “uxor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers