nuptiae

Latin

Alternative forms

• nū̆ptia

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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. 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

• nū̆ptiālis
• pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant

Descendants

• ⇒ Proto-Romanian: [Term?]
  • Aromanian: numtã, nuntã, numte, lumtã
  • Romanian: nuntă
• Vulgar Latin: *noptiās (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: núpcias
  • → Spanish: nupcias

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