matrimonium

Latin

From māter (“mother”) +‎ -mōnium (“obligation”). Compare with patrimōnium.

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maː.triˈmoː.ni.um/, [mäːt̪rɪˈmoːniʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.triˈmo.ni.um/, [mät̪riˈmɔːnium]

mātrimōnium n (genitive mātrimōniī or mātrimōnī); second declension

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

“matrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“matrimonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
matrimonium 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)
matrimonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to marry (of the man): ducere aliquam in matrimonium
- to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonio or in matrimonium collocare or simply filiam alicui collocare
- to give one's daughter in marriage to some-one: filiam alicui in matrimonium dare
“matrimonium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“matrimonium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin