different between cohabitation vs concubine

English

Etymology

From French cohabitation, from Latin cohabitationem.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ko?hæb??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

cohabitation (countable and uncountable, plural cohabitations)

1. An emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction.
2. The act of living together.
3. A place where two or more individuals reside together.
4. (biology) The act of two species living together in the same habitat.
5. (politics) Cooperation between politicians of opposing political parties; especially, in France, between a President and Prime Minister.
   • 2001, Jon Henly, The Guardian, 18 Jul 2001:

     Commentators agreed that Mr Chirac's unusually aggressive remarks, followed by the equally fierce response of Mr Jospin's government, signalled the beginning of the end for the tense but so far civil "cohabitation" under which the two men have ruled France since 1997.

Synonyms

• marriage, civil union

Derived terms

• cohabitate

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.a.bi.ta.sj??/

Noun

cohabitation f (plural cohabitations)

1. cohabitation (act of living together)
2. (politics) cohabitation

Related terms

• cohabiter

Further reading

• “cohabitation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English concubine (first attested 1250–1300), from Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concub?na, equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumb? (“to lie together”)) + feminine suffix -?na.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??kj?ba?n/

Noun

concubine (plural concubines)

1. A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.

   Synonyms: mistress, sprunk; see also Thesaurus:sexual partner, Thesaurus:mistress

2. A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.

   Synonyms: cohabitor, cohabitant, domestic partner
3. (chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.

   Synonym: odalisque

Derived terms

• concubinage

Translations

See also

• harem
• polygamy
• co-wife
• seraglio

References

• Random House Unabridged Dictionary
• concubine at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch concubine, from Middle French concubine, from Old French [Term?], from Latin concub?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??.ky?bi.n?/
• Hyphenation: con?cu?bi?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

concubine f (plural concubines or concubinen)

1. concubine

   Synonyms: bijvrouw, bijwijf, bijzit, bijzitster

Derived terms

• concubinaat

French

Etymology

Latin concub?na

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ky.bin/

Noun

concubine f (plural concubines, masculine concubin)

1. cohabitant, female domestic partner
2. concubine

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon.ku?bi.ne/

Noun

concubine f

1. plural of concubina

Latin

Noun

concub?ne

1. vocative singular of concub?nus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• concubyne, concubyn, concubin

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concub?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?nkiu??bi?n(?)/

Noun

concubine (plural concubines)

1. A concubine; a secondary female partner.
2. (rare) A illegitimate or unacknowledged partner (male or female)

Descendants

• English: concubine

References

• “conc?b?n(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.