different between monogamy vs bigamy

English

Etymology

From French monogamie, from Late Latin monogamia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (monogamía). Synchronically, mono- +? -gamy.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??n???mi/

Noun

monogamy (countable and uncountable, plural monogamies)

1. A form of sexual bonding involving a permanent pair bond between two beings.

   Antonym: polygamy

2. The practice of being married to one person as opposed to multiple.

   Antonym: polygamy

Derived terms

• supermonogamy

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English bigamie (“having two spouses simultaneously, bigamy; second marriage; marrying a widow or widower”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman bigamie and Middle French bigamie (“having two spouses simultaneously; second marriage; marrying a widow or widower”) (modern French bigamie (“bigamy”)), and its etymon Late Latin bigamia (“having two spouses simultaneously; second marriage”), from Late Latin, Latin bigamus (“bigamous”) + -ia (variant of -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns)). Bigamus is derived from bis (“twice, two times”) + Ancient Greek ????? (gámos, “marriage; matrimony”) (from Proto-Indo-European *?em- (“to marry”)). The English word is analysable as bi- +? -gamy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?b???mi/
• Hyphenation: bi?ga?my

Noun

bigamy (countable and uncountable, plural bigamies)

1. The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously.
2. (ecclesiastical law, historical) A second marriage after the death of a spouse.

   Synonyms: deuterogamy, digamy

Alternative forms

• bigamie (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• biandry
• bigyny

Coordinate terms

• monogamy (monandry, monogyny)
• omnigamy
• polygamy (polyandry, polygyny)

Derived terms

• bigamist

Related terms

Translations

See also

• polyamory
• plural marriage

References

Further reading

• bigamy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bigamy (canon law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bigamy (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia