husband (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. mărītus (the usual and most specific term)2. vir, vĭri3. conjux, ŭgis (poet.)4. (of a slave) contŭbernālis, is • husband (subs.): 1. mărītus (the usual and most specific term): Cic.: Hor. 2. vir, vĭri: I am undone: what answer shall I give to my h.? perii! quid v. meo respondebo? Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 1: because she had no h., propterea quod v. non haberet, Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 25, 64: Hor.: Petr. 3. conjux, ŭgis (poet.): Virg. Ov.: v. spouse. 4. (of a slave) contŭbernālis, is: Col. 12, 1. Phr.: to take a h., nubere (with dat. of person): v. to marry.
husband (v.) Copy link • husband (v.): perh. parco, 3: v. to economize, spare. Phr.: he resolved carefully to h. the supply of corn, frumentum parce et paullatim metiri instituit, Caes. B. G. 7, 71: we must carefully h. the supply of corn, *frumentum parce admodum est dispensandum.
HUSBAND Copy link • HUSBAND 1. s. maritus (opposed to coelebs): conjux: vir. A newly-married husband, novus maritus (Apul., Mel., 8, p. 201, 36): a husband too much devoted to his wife, maritus nimis uxorius: a woman who has two husbands, quae apud duos nupta est: a woman who has already had several husbands, mulier multarum nuptiarum. 2. v. To use with frugality, diligenter or parce administrare aliquid (e.g., rem familiarem): parcere (general term, to spare). He husbands his time very carefully, magna est ejus parsimonia temporis (Plin., Ep. 3, 5, 12): to husband one’s property, rei familiaris diligentissimum esse (Suet., Gram., 23): to husband the corn, frumentum parce et paullatim metiri (Caes.). To till, etc., Vid: