uxorius

== Latin == === Etymology === Derived from uxor (“wife”) +‎ -ius (adjective-forming suffix). === Adjective === uxōrius (feminine uxōria, neuter uxōrium); first/second-declension adjective belonging to a wife pertaining to or characteristic of a wife: wifish, wifely, wifey overly fond of, excessively devoted to, or submissive to one’s wife: uxorious, doting ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → English: uxorious → Italian: uxorio → Portuguese: uxório === References === “uxorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford Latin Dictionary (2005), Oxford University Press