nuptials

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wedding ceremony. plural,plural-only
    — To Night, to Night, this fatal Moment, novv / Our dreadful Father's Nuptials are preparing, / And I muſt loſe bright Monima for ever.
    10th Turkish History Congress: Ankara, 22–26 September 1986: Reported to the Congress

词源

From nuptial, borrowed from Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), from nūptiae (“wedding”) (also plural only), from nūpta, from nūbō (“to marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho-, *snewbʰ- (“to marry, wed”). Cognate with French noces and Italian nozze.
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