nuptiae

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From nū̆pta (“married, wedded; covered, veiled”) +‎ -iae (nominative plural inflection of -ia). For the plural morphology, compare other festival names such as Sāturnālia as well as the word fēriae (“festival”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈnuːp.ti.ae̯/, [ˈnuːpt̪iäe̯] or IPA(key): /ˈnup.ti.ae̯/, [ˈnʊpt̪iäe̯]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnup.t͡si.e/, [ˈnupt̪͡s̪ie]
  • Lewis 1891 marks the vowel in the first syllable as long, but other authors such as De Vaan indicate a short vowel here.[2] See nūbō.

Noun

nū̆ptiae f pl (genitive nū̆ptiārum); first declension (plural only)

  1. wedding, marriage, nuptials

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative nū̆ptiae
Genitive nū̆ptiārum
Dative nū̆ptiīs
Accusative nū̆ptiās
Ablative nū̆ptiīs
Vocative nū̆ptiae

Derived terms

Descendants
  • ⇒ Proto-Romanian: [Term?]
  • Vulgar Latin: *noptiās (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:

References
  1. Paolo Acquaviva (2008) Lexical Plurals: A Morphosemantic Approach, Oxford University Press, page 20.
  2. 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
  • “nuptiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nuptiae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nuptiae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • nuptiae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “nuptiae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “nuptiae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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