connubial
adjEtymology
1650s, from Latin connūbiālis, from connūbium (“marriage, wedlock”) (variants of cōnūbiālis (“pertaining to wedlock”), from cōnūbium (“marriage, wedlock”)) from com- (“together”) (English com-) + nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”) (from which nubile) from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”).
- derived from *snewbʰ-✻
- borrowed from connūbiālis
Definitions
Of or relating to the state of being married.
- Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.
- A lady, wearing a plumed hat, and her dark-spectacled husband were sitting in connubial silence on the davenport; […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at connubial. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at connubial. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at connubial
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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