sponsalia

From spōnsālis, from spōnsa (“spouse”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [spõːˈsaː.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sponˈsaː.li.a]

spōnsālia n pl (genitive spōnsālium); third declension (plural only)

1. betrothal, espousal
2. wedding

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem), plural only.

• → German: Sponsalien
• → Spanish: esponsales

• “sponsalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sponsalia", 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)