Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sponsal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: spon-sal
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"1870, Lorenzo Altisonant [Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour], Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, 4th Edition, page 64, The sponsal munities I claim are the postnate: To be autocratix in the culinary department, synarchist in other departments of the domicile, and adespotic alibi; and to commonstrate the bairns not to be solifidians, nor nullifidians."
"Boniface Llamera, St. Joseph (Herder, 1961), better preserves the primary character of the sponsal relationship when he writes: "The entire theology of St. Joseph (Josephology) has one first and principal basis: the marriage which united him to Mary.""
"This leads to diversity in the types of sponsal relationships."

Etymology

From Latin sponsalis, from sponsus (“a betrothal”), from spondere, sponsum (“to betroth”). See spouse, and compare espousal, spousal.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: sponsalis

Usage

Obsolete

Synonyms

nuptial

Rhymes With

consul vice-consul tonsil proconsul tonsile

Questions

What does sponsal mean?: Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal.
Where does sponsal come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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