wife Copy link Outline 1. uxor, ōris2. conjux, jŭgis (a partner)3. mărīta (mostly poet.) • wife: 1. uxor, ōris: to take a w., uxorem adjungere, Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 68: has then Antipho taken a w. without my consent? itane tandem uxorem duxit Antipho injussu meo? Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 1. 2. conjux, jŭgis (a partner): wives and children, conjuges ac liberi, Cic. Cat. 4, 9, 18. 3. mărīta (mostly poet.): chaste wives, castae maritae, Ov. F. 2, 139. Phr.: if you refuse to take a w., si tu negaris ducere, Ter. Andr. 2, 3, 5: the maiden became the w. of him whose w. Caecilia had been, virgo ei nupsit cui Caecilia ante nupta fuerat, Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104: to give to w., in matrimonium dare, Caes. B. G. 1, 3: for other phrases, v. to marry.