uxorius

Latin

Etymology

Derived from uxor (“wife”) +‎ -ius (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

uxōrius (feminine uxōria, neuter uxōrium); first/second-declension adjective

1. belonging to a wife
2. pertaining to or characteristic of a wife: wifish, wifely, wifey
3. overly fond of, excessively devoted to, or submissive to one’s wife: uxorious, doting
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.265–267:

     Continuō invādit: “Tū nunc Karthāginis altae
     fundāmenta locās, pulchramque uxōrius urbem
     exstruis heu rēgnī rērumque oblīte tuārum?”

     Immediately, [Mercury] assails [Aeneas]: “You now lay the foundations of high Carthage, and build a noble city for a woman’s sake – alas! – mindless of your [own] realm and real destiny?”
     (The love affair of Dido and Aeneas threatens to alter the entwined futures of Carthage and Rome. Translations vary – Mandelbaum, 1971: “as servant to a woman”; Fagles, 2006: “doting on your wife”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “tame husband that you are”; Ahl, 2007: “obsessed with your wife”; Bartsch, 2020: “acting the good husband”; Ruden, 2021: “your wife must like you”.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	uxōrius	uxōria	uxōrium		uxōriī	uxōriae	uxōria
Genitive	uxōriī	uxōriae	uxōriī		uxōriōrum	uxōriārum	uxōriōrum
Dative	uxōriō		uxōriō		uxōriīs
Accusative	uxōrium	uxōriam	uxōrium		uxōriōs	uxōriās	uxōria
Ablative	uxōriō	uxōriā	uxōriō		uxōriīs
Vocative	uxōrie	uxōria	uxōrium		uxōriī	uxōriae	uxōria

Descendants

• English: uxorious
• Italian: uxorio

References

• “uxorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Oxford Latin Dictionary (2005), Oxford University Press