maritus

• meritus

• IPA^(key): /maritus/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri‧tus

maritus

1. pili, edible nut of the tropical tree Canarium ovatum

Perhaps related with mās (“male, a male”). According to de Vaan from Proto-Indo-European *morei-, *mori- or *morih₂- (“young woman”), developing into a pre-Italic *mārī-, with possessive *-to-. Compare Welsh morwyn (“girl, maiden”) (< Proto-Celtic *moreinā-), Welsh merch (“daughter”) (< Proto-Celtic *merkā), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy, girl”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “young man; foal”), Bactrian μαρηγο (marēgo, “servant”) (< Proto-Indo-European *meri̯o-), Lithuanian merga (“girl”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mergh-eh₂-), Lithuanian marti (“daughter-in-law”) (< Proto-Indo-European *mor-t-iH-).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maˈriː.tus/, [mäˈriːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈri.tus/, [mäˈriːt̪us]

marītus (feminine marīta, neuter marītum); first/second-declension adjective

1. marital, matrimonial, conjugal

First/second-declension adjective.

marītus m (genitive marītī, feminine marīta); second declension

1. husband, married man

   Synonyms: coniūnx, vir

   Antonyms: marīta, uxor, nūpta, mulier

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.35-36:

     “Ēsto: aegram nūllī quondam flexēre marītī,
     nōn Libyae, nōn ante Tyrō; [...].”

     “Granted, in your grief, not one of those prior [would-be] husbands prevailed upon you — none from Libya, nor before then in Tyre; [...].”
     (Anna notably uses the term “mariti” — not “proci” — to describe the men that Dido has rejected as prospective alliances.)

2. (poetic) lover
3. (of animals) male

Second-declension noun.

• marītālis
• marītō

• “maritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “maritus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• maritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.