different between connubial vs spousal

English

Etymology

1650s, from Latin conn?bi?lis, from conn?bium (“marriage, wedlock”) (variants of c?n?bi?lis (“pertaining to wedlock”), from c?n?bium (“marriage, wedlock”)) from com- (“together”) (English com-) + n?b? (“marry, to take as husband”) (from which nubile) from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho- (“to marry, to wed”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k??nju?.bi.?l/

Adjective

connubial (comparative more connubial, superlative most connubial)

1. Of or relating to the state of being married.

Usage notes

Particularly used in fixed phrases, such as “connubial bliss”, “connubial love”, “connubial relations”, and “connubial bed”.

Synonyms

• conjugal

Related terms

• nubile
• nuptial, nuptials

References

Spanish

Adjective

connubial (plural connubiales)

1. connubial

English

Etymology

From spouse +? -al

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /?spa?z?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?spa?z?l/, /?spa?s?l/

Adjective

spousal (comparative more spousal, superlative most spousal)

1. of or relating to marriage
2. of or relating to a spouse, spouses; to the relationship between spouses
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

     There we shall consummate our spousal rites.

Derived terms

• spousal abuse
• spousal support

Translations

Noun

spousal (plural spousals)

1. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) marriage; nuptials; espousal

   • The spousals of Hippolita.

   • Boweth your necke under that blissful yoke […] Whiche men clepen spousayle or wedloke.

   • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-day

     The spousals of the new-born year.