innuptus

in-nuptus, a, um, adj. [2. in-nubo], unmarried.

I.

Lit.

A.

Adj.:

pueri innuptaeque puellae,

Verg. G. 4, 476:

Minerva,

virginal, virgin-, id. A. 2, 31:

manus,

the Amazons, Sil. 2, 75.—

B.

Subst.: innupta, ae, f., an unmarried woman, a virgin, Cat. 62, 6; 12; 36; 64, 78; Prop. 3, 19, 25; Verg. A. 12, 24:

praegnans,

Arn. in Luc. 2, 2.—

II.

Transf.: innuptae nuptiae (gamos agamos), a marriage that is no marriage, an unhappy marriage, Poëta ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 219 (Trag. Fragm. Inc. v. 80 Rib.).