spondere alicui aliquam, despondere alicui aliquam (despondere is used also of the father of the man, Terentianus, And., i., 1, 75). To betroth one’s self, sponsalia facere: to a woman, despondere sibi aliquam. To be betrothed to a man, alicui desponderi. She was already betrothed to the youth, jam destinata erat juveni. A man betrothed, desponsus (desponsatus is post-classical in Suet., and rare), sponsus. A (woman) betrothed to a man, sponsa, desponsa alicui. The parties betrothed, sponsi. To whom Lavinia was betrothed, cui Lavinia pacta fuerat. To betroth a person to anybody, despondere aliquem alicui.