maritus Latin · revision 5664

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *mori-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [maˈriː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [maˈriː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''marītus''' ''m'' (genitive marītī, feminine marīta); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ De Vaan derives it with a possessive suffix from a stem *morei- or *morih₂- “young woman”, so “having a young woman”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[cy|morwyn|t=girl]] and, from a related stem, [[sa|मर्य|tr=márya-|t=young man]].^(de Vaan 2008) The traditional view, followed by Lewis and Short, takes it from [[mās]] “male”, and Isidore said it was named “as if ''mās''”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Isidore) The OLD calls it doubtful.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, whose old married man lives here.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates the adjective from Ennius and Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it was a husband, as on an epitaph of a wife who loved her husband with her heart, and in the plural ''marītī'' the married couple.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Of domestic animals it was the male kept for breeding, as Virgil's stallion.^(OLD 2012) The adjective meant married, and of vines “wedded” to the trees that support them, as Cato advises, and relating to marriage, conjugal, as Horace's ''lēx marīta'', Augustus' marriage law.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ It survives in [[it|marito]], [[fr|mari]], [[es|marido]] and Romanian ''mărit''.^(Wiktionary) ''Marītālis'' gave [[en|marital]] about 1600.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a married old man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato speaks of trees well wedded to their vines.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 17 BC – Horace's ''Carmen saeculare'' names the marriage law.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 1600 – English ''marital'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|husband]], (plural) a married couple.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # (of animals) A male kept for breeding, a mate.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Married.^(OLD 2012)

+ # (of vines and trees) “Wedded”, joined.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of marriage, conjugal, [[m|en|nuptial]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[bimarītus]]

+ * [[commarītus]]

+ * [[marītālis]]

+ * [[marītō]]

+ * [[ūnimarīta]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[marīta]]

+ * [[coniux]]

+ * [[en|marital]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}