sponsa

Feminine of spōnsus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.sa/, [ˈs̠põːs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspon.sa/, [ˈspɔnsä]

spōnsa f (genitive spōnsae); first declension

1. bride
2. fiancée (betrothed woman)

First-declension noun.

• “sponsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sponsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sponsa 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)
• sponsa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sponsa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sponsa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• sponset

sponsa

1. inflection of sponse:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle