nurus
Meaning
- femininedaughter-in-law
semper ad Aeneadās placidō, pulcherrima, voltū
Goddess most beautiful, with a pleased expression [may you] always look upon the descendants of Aeneas, and protect your daughters-in-law, so numerous.8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.161–162 - femininegranddaughter-in-law
anum suapte natura potentiae anxiam insociabilem nurui efficiebat
she worked to further the estrangement of the old woman, by her own nature anxious to maintain her power, from her granddaughter-in-lawc. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 4.12 - feminineyoung married woman, young lady
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
uxor fīliīDeclension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nurus /ˈnɔra/ | nurūs /ˈnɔras/, nurae |
| genitive | nurūs nurae | nuruum nurārum |
| dative | nuruī nurae | nuribus nurīs |
| accusative | nurum nuram | nurūs nurās |
| ablative | nurū | nuribus nurīs |
| vocative | nurus | nurūs nurae |
uno animo omnes socrus oderunt nurus, Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 4; Cic. Phil. 2, 24, 58; Verg. A. 2, 501: jam tua, Laomedon, oritur nurus, i. e. Aurora, the wife of Tithonus, a son of Laomedon, Ov. F. 6, 729: matrum nuruumque caterva, id. M. 12, 216; Gai. Inst. 2, 159; Juv. 14, 220.—inque nurus Parthas dedecus illud eat, Ov. A. A. 3, 248; id. M. 2, 366; id. H. 16, 184; Mart. 4, 75, 2: nurus Latinae, Ov. M. 2, 366; Luc. 1, 146.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *snusós, remade into an u-stem likely by influence of socrus, -ūs (“mother in law”). The first -u- is unexpected, as original *-u- before -r- arising from *-s- would have been expected to lower to *-o- (cf. serō < *sish₁-). The expected outcome is nevertheless reflected in most Romance descendants (eg. Spanish nuera, Italian nuora, etc.), although they could be secondary, and shifted from the attested -u- by influence of other female kinship terms such as socrus or soror (“sister”). The variant ending in -a, also found in Romance descendants but attested already in the Appendix Probi, while also conceivably secondary, reflects a Proto-Indo-European *snus-éh₂ also reflected in Proto-Germanic *snuzō, Proto-Slavic *snъxà and Sanskrit स्नुषा (snuṣā́).