The corpus record — Latin

jugalis

jugalis · adj

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Where it lives

Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

jŭgālis, e, adj.jugum,

I of or belonging to a yoke, yoked together.

I Lit.: equi jumentaque, Curt. 9, 10, 22: equi et currus jugalis, Macr. S. 5, 17, 2.—Subst.: jŭgāles, a team: gemini, Verg. A. 7, 280. —

II Transf.

A ŏS, a bone above the ear, near the temple, Cels. 8, 1.—

B Fastened to the loom: tela, Cato, R. R. 10, 5.—

C Matrimonial, nuptial: ne cui me vinclo vellem sociare jugali, Verg. A. 4, 16: lectus, id. ib. 4, 496: foedus, Val. Fl. 8, 222: dona, Ov. M. 3, 309: amor, Sen. Agm. 239: anni, Mart. 10, 38.—Subst.: jŭgālis, a husband, spouse, Ven. Carm. 6, 2, 76.

In the wild

iugalia Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.715
iugalium Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 9.10.22
iugalia Vergil, Aeneid 4.59
iugalia Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.1084
iugalia Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.700

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.