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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).

  1. 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.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. Of animals: olentis uxores mariti, i. e. she-goats, Hor. C. 1, 17, 7.
    2. B. Humorously, of the cloak (abolla) as inseparable from the poor man, Mart. 4, 53, 5.

uxorcŭla, ae, f. dim. [uxor], a little wife (ante- and post-class.): erat ei uxorcula satis quidem tenuis, App. M. 9, p. 219, 8.
As a term of endearment: mea uxorcula! Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 19; 5, 2, 38; Varr. ap. Non. 83, 25.

uxōrĭus, a, um, adj. [uxor], of or belonging to a wife or married woman.

  1. I. In gen.
    1. A. Adj.: in arbitrio rei uxoriae, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61; id. Top. 17, 66: abhorrens ab re uxoriā, i. e. averse to marriage, Ter. And. 5, 1, 10: dos, Ov. A. A. 2, 155: quam formam modicam et modestam Favorinus non inscite appellabat uxoriam, appropriate for a wife, Gell. 5, 11, 13.
      Poet.: imber, i. e. tears for the death of a wife, Stat. S. 5, 1, 31: jus, Dig. 32, 29 pr.: levamentum, Tac. A. 3, 34: nomen, Suet. Calig. 25.
    2. B. Subst.: uxōrĭum, ii, n., a tax laid on old-bachelors, the old-bachelor tax, Fest. p. 379 Müll.
  2. II. In partic., excessively fond of one’s wife, uxorious: pulcramque uxorius urbem Exstruis, Verg. A. 4, 266: amnis (Tiberis), as the husband of Ilia, Hor. C. 1, 2, 19: Vulcanus, Claud. Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 59: juvenis, Auct. Paneg. ad Maxim. et Constantin. 4.