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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.1.3.pr

Etymology of Terms for Betrothed Persons

Passage 3291 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Florentinus explains that the designations for a betrothed man and a betrothed woman arose from the same etymological origin of promising.

[FLORENTINUS libro tertio institutionum. ] §23.1.3.prunde et sponsi sponsaeque appellatio nata est.
[FLORENTINUS, in the third book of his Institutes.] hence also arose the designation of betrothed man and betrothed woman.

Notes

  1. §23.1.3.prunde — A relative adverb referring back to the etymological connection (the act of promising, spondere) mentioned in the preceding text, meaning 'whence' or 'from which source'.
  2. §23.1.3.prsponsi sponsaeque — Genitives of the nouns sponsus (betrothed man) and sponsa (betrothed woman), modifying appellatio (designation) as genitives of definition (or appositive genitives), meaning 'the designation of "sponsus" and "sponsa"'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.1.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.1.3.pr

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