Latin

Alternative forms

• mātrumōnium

Noun

mātrimōnium n ‎(genitive mātrimōniī); second declension

1. marriage, matrimony, wedlock.

Inflection

Second declension.

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “matrimonium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to marry (of the man): ducere aliquam in matrimonium
    
  • to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonio or in matrimonium collocare or simply filiam alicui collocare
    
  • to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonium dare
    
• 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