uxor

See also: & uxor

Interlingua

Noun

uxor (plural uxores)

1. wife

Latin

Alternative forms

• uxsor (Epigraphic Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *uksōr which is of unknown origin. Possibly cognate with Old Armenian ամուսին (amusin). Alternatively a cognate to Latvian uõsis (“father-in-law”), Lithuanian uošvė (“mother-in-law”) and Ossetian ус (us, “woman”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈuk.sor/, [ˈʊks̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈuk.sor/, [ˈuksor]

Noun

uxor f (genitive uxōris); third declension

1. a wife, a spouse, a consort

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	uxor	uxōrēs
Genitive	uxōris	uxōrum
Dative	uxōrī	uxōribus
Accusative	uxōrem	uxōrēs
Ablative	uxōre	uxōribus
Vocative	uxor	uxōrēs

Synonyms

• (wife, spouse): acoetis, coniūnx, mulier, nūpta, mātrōna

Derived terms

• dūco uxōrem
• et uxor, et ux
• uxoricidium
• uxōrius
• iūre uxōris, jūre uxōris

Descendants

• Old French: oissor, oissour, uissor, usor
  • Middle French: oisour (early)
• ⇒ Aromanian: ãnsor
• ⇒ Romanian: însura
• → Interlingua: uxor
• →⇒ English: uxoricide, uxorious, uxorial

See also

• maritus

References

• “uxor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “uxor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• uxor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to marry (of the man): ducere uxorem
    
  • to be a married man: uxorem habere (Verr. 3. 33. 76)
    
  • to separate from, divorce (of the man): divortium facere cum uxore
    
  • with wife and child: cum uxoribus et liberis
    
• “uxor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers