pronuba

Italian

Etymology

From Latin prōnuba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈprɔ.nu.ba/
  • Rhymes: -a

Noun

pronuba f (plural pronube)

  1. matchmaker (female)
  2. pronuba

Adjective

pronuba

  1. feminine singular of pronubo

References

  • pronuba in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • pronuba in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • pronuba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From prō +‎ nūbō.

Pronunciation

Noun

prōnuba f (genitive prōnubae); first declension

  1. maid of honor, matron of honor, one who conducts the bride to the bridal chamber
  2. Pronuba Iuno: Juno as Queen of Marriage, Goddess of Marriage
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.166–167:
      [...] Prīma et Tellūs et prōnuba Iūnō / dant signum [...].
      And now Primal Tellus and Juno, Queen of Marriage, give the signal.
      (See: Tellus; Juno; serving here as the “auspices nuptiarum” who read omens prior to a Roman wedding.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative prōnuba prōnubae
genitive prōnubae prōnubārum
dative prōnubae prōnubīs
accusative prōnubam prōnubās
ablative prōnubā prōnubīs
vocative prōnuba prōnubae

Descendants

  • Italian: pronuba
  • English: pronubial

Adjective

prōnuba

  1. inflection of prōnubus:
    1. nominative/ablative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

References

  • “pronuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "pronuba", 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)
  • “pronuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pronuba”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “pronuba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • 1968, Oxford Latin Dictionary‎[1] (quotation in English; overall work in English), Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1488:
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