uxorious
Meaningwife-doting
Common meaning: overly fond of one's wife
- uxora wifeLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1949 · scan
- iousadjective ending: full of, marked by
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√WAK‘wish, desire, be willing’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 335, p. 742 · scan
- Latinuxor, -ōris‘a wife’
- Englishuxorious‘overly fond of one's wife’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin uxor ‘a wife’.
Roots
- uxor, -ōris Latin “a wife”
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