matrimonium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === mātrumōnium === Etymology === From māter (“mother”) + -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with patrimōnium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [maː.trɪˈmoː.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ma.triˈmɔː.ni.um] === Noun === mātrimōnium n (genitive mātrimōniī or mātrimōnī); second declension marriage, matrimony, wedlock. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Synonyms ==== (wedlock): cōnūbium, thalamus ==== Derived terms ==== mātrimōniālis ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “matrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “matrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "matrimonium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “matrimonium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “matrimonium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “matrimonium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin