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maritus

Brunei Malay

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /maritus/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ri‧tus

Noun

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maritus

  1. pili, edible nut of the tropical tree Canarium ovatum

Latin

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Etymology

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Perhaps related with mās (“male, a male”). According to de Vaan from Proto-Indo-European *morei-, *mori- or *morih₂- (“young woman”), developing into a pre-Italic *mārī-, with possessive *-to-. Compare Welsh morwyn (“girl, maiden”) (< Proto-Celtic *moreinā-), Welsh merch (“daughter”) (< Proto-Celtic *merkā), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy, girl”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “young man; foal”), Bactrian μαρηγο (marēgo, “servant”) (< Proto-Indo-European *meri̯o-), Lithuanian merga (“girl”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mergh-eh₂-), Lithuanian marti (“daughter-in-law”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mor-t-iH-).[1]

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Adjective

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marītus (feminine marīta, neuter marītum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. marital, matrimonial, conjugal

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative marītus marīta marītum marītī marītae marīta
Genitive marītī marītae marītī marītōrum marītārum marītōrum
Dative marītō marītō marītīs
Accusative marītum marītam marītum marītōs marītās marīta
Ablative marītō marītā marītō marītīs
Vocative marīte marīta marītum marītī marītae marīta

Noun

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marītus m (genitive marītī, feminine marīta); second declension

  1. husband, married man
    Synonyms: coniūnx, vir
    Antonyms: marīta, uxor, nūpta, mulier
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.35-36:
      “Ēsto: aegram nūllī quondam flexēre marītī,
      nōn Libyae, nōn ante Tyrō; [...].”
      “Granted, in your grief, not one of those prior [would-be] husbands prevailed upon you — none from Libya, nor before then in Tyre; [...].”
      (Anna notably uses the term “mariti” — not “proci” — to describe the men that Dido has rejected as prospective alliances.)
  2. (poetic) lover
  3. (of animals) male

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative marītus marītī
Genitive marītī marītōrum
Dative marītō marītīs
Accusative marītum marītōs
Ablative marītō marītīs
Vocative marīte marītī

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References

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  • “maritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “maritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • maritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “marītus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365
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