conjux (as a partner in marriage): uxor (as lawfully married): marita (a married woman). To take a wife, uxorem ducere: to take anybody to wife, aliquam in matrimonium ducere; aliquam ducere uxorem; aliquam ducere: to have as a wife, aliquam uxorem habere; aliquam in matrimonio habere: to give a woman to anybody as wife, in matrimonium dare or collocare aliquam alicui; aliquam alicui in matrimonio or nuptum collocare: to become the wife of anybody, nubere alicui: what sort of woman have you for a wife? quid mulieris uxorem habes?not to take a wife, matrimoniis se abstinere (after Suet., Caes., 51, in.): to have two wifes at the same time, duas simul uxores habere.