Connubial Definition

kə-no͝obē-əl, -nyo͝o-
adjective
Of marriage or the state of being married; conjugal.
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Origin of Connubial

  • 1650s, from Latin connūbiālis, from connūbium (“marriage, wedlock”) (variants of cōnūbiālis (“pertaining to wedlock”), from cōnūbium (“marriage, wedlock”)) from com- (“together”) (English com-) + nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”) (from which nubile) from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho- (“to marry, to wed”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin cōnūbiālis from cōnūbium marriage com- com- nūbere to marry

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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