connubial
/kəˈnu.bi.əl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the state of being married.
Example Sentences
- ""For my part," continued the Duke of Wharton, "I hold that the connubial system of this country is a complete mistake. The only happy marriages I ever heard of are those in some Eastern story I once read, where the king marries a new wife every night, and cuts off her head in the morning.""
- "Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity."
- "A lady, wearing a plumed hat, and her dark-spectacled husband were sitting in connubial silence on the davenport; […]"
Etymology
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 *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: connūbiālis, *snewbʰ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kəˈnu.bi.əl/
- British English: /kəˈnjuː.bi.əl/
Inflected Forms
more connubial (comparative)
most connubial (superlative)