uxor

uxor, ōris (for the form VXSOR in inscrr. v. the letter X), f. [etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. vaca, wife], a wife, spouse, consort (syn. conjux).

I.

Lit.:

licuit uxorem dotatam ducere,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 86: duxit me uxorem liberorum sibi quaesendūm gratia, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. quaeso, p. 258 (Trag. v. 161 Vahl.);

so very freq. ducere uxorem, v. duco: uxorem adjungere,

Cic. Fin. 3, 20, 68:

ridicule illud L. Nasica censori Catoni, cum ille Ex tui animi sententiā tu uxorem habes? Non hercle, inquit, ex animi mei sententiā,

id. de Or. 2, 64, 260:

erus, quantum audio, uxore excidit,

must go without a wife, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12; 1, 3, 11:

quod tu dicis, mea uxor, non te mihi irasci decet,

Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 24.—On the legal condition of Roman married women, v. Rein, Röm. Privatr. p. 182 sq.; Dict. of Antiq. s. v. uxor.—

II.

Transf.

A.

Of animals:

olentis uxores mariti,

i. e. she-goats, Hor. C. 1, 17, 7.—

B.

Humorously, of the cloak (abolla) as inseparable from the poor man, Mart. 4, 53, 5.