nuptus
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnuptus/
- Rhymes: -uptus
- Syllabification: nup‧tus
Verb
nuptus
- conditional of nupti
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of nūbō (“(of a woman) to marry; to cover, veil”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnuːp.tʊs], [ˈnʊp.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnup.tus]
- Lewis 1891 marks the vowel in the first syllable as long, but other authors such as De Vaan indicate a short vowel here.[1] See nūbō.
Participle
nū̆ptus (feminine nū̆pta, neuter nū̆ptum); first/second-declension participle
- (rare) covered, veiled, having been veiled
- married, wedded
- (of words) which should not be spoken by the unmarried
- (substantive, feminine) a bride
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | nū̆ptus | nū̆pta | nū̆ptum | nū̆ptī | nū̆ptae | nū̆pta | |
| genitive | nū̆ptī | nū̆ptae | nū̆ptī | nū̆ptōrum | nū̆ptārum | nū̆ptōrum | |
| dative | nū̆ptō | nū̆ptae | nū̆ptō | nū̆ptīs | |||
| accusative | nū̆ptum | nū̆ptam | nū̆ptum | nū̆ptōs | nū̆ptās | nū̆pta | |
| ablative | nū̆ptō | nū̆ptā | nū̆ptō | nū̆ptīs | |||
| vocative | nū̆pte | nū̆pta | nū̆ptum | nū̆ptī | nū̆ptae | nū̆pta | |
Etymology 2
From nūbō (supine stem nū̆pt-) + -tus (forming action nouns).
Pronunciation
- nū̆ptus:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnuːp.tʊs], [ˈnʊp.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnup.tus]
- nū̆ptūs:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnuːp.tuːs], [ˈnʊp.tuːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnup.tus]
Noun
nū̆ptus m (genitive nū̆ptūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nū̆ptus | nū̆ptūs |
| genitive | nū̆ptūs | nū̆ptuum |
| dative | nū̆ptuī | nū̆ptibus |
| accusative | nū̆ptum | nū̆ptūs |
| ablative | nū̆ptū | nū̆ptibus |
| vocative | nū̆ptus | nū̆ptūs |
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “nūbō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 417
Further reading
- “nuptus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nuptus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nūptus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “nuptus / nuptŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be married to some one: nuptam esse cum aliquo or alicui
- (ambiguous) to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui nuptum dare
- (ambiguous) to be married to some one: nuptam esse cum aliquo or alicui
- nuptus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016