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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread uxorious #85489 11/03/02 10:48 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 167 Australia J johnjohn OP member OP johnjohn member J Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 167 Australia What's the male equivalent? is this a YART? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: uxorious #85490 11/03/02 11:54 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 B&M OED gives maritorious, but calls it a nonce-word and only lists one citation, which, I suppose, makes it a hapax legomenon as well. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: uxorious #85491 11/03/02 04:12 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass the new edition adds a bit: nonce-wd. (Revived only from dict. record.) [Humorously < classical Latin maritus husband (see MARRY v.) + -ORIOUS (in UXORIOUS a.: cf. -ORIOUS), punningly on MERITORIOUS a.] Greatly or excessively fond of one's husband. 1607 G. CHAPMAN Bussy d'Ambois II. 22 Dames maritorious, ne're were meritorious. 1978 P. HOWARD Weasel Words xliv. 166 ‘My husband and I’, is felt to be..charmingly whatever adjective is the wifely feminine of uxorious. The adjective you are looking for is the extremely rare word ‘maritorious’. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: uxorious #85492 11/03/02 08:16 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 From India word site: "What is the word for a wife who is excessively fond of her husband? (Kriti Nath Jha, Delhi) Some time ago I had written in this column that the English language has a word for a man who is excessively fond of his wife -"uxorious"- but that it doesn't have a word for a woman who is excessively fond of her husband. I am happy to report that such a word does exist. The word is "maritorious". It is derived from the Latin "maritus" meaning "husband". But unlike the word "uxorious", "maritorious" is a word that is seldom heard or used. One does not find it listed in most dictionaries. Wonder why! " http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/09/04/stories/13040376.htm Scroll down about two thirds Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: uxorious #85493 11/06/02 12:25 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 167 Australia J johnjohn OP member OP johnjohn member J Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 167 Australia I love this site, thanks for that everyone. I wonder if there's any possible tie up-or corruption between maritorious and meritorious? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: uxorious #85494 11/06/02 12:57 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 The ladies would perhaps regard the uxorious male as so uncommon as to be noteworthy, while maritorious wives are the norm and so not noteworthy. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: uxorious #85495 11/06/02 10:14 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 R RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah R Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Dr Bill - I suspect you of currying favour with the ladies! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: uxorious #85496 11/06/02 10:47 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 any possible tie up-or corruption between maritorious and meritorious? I would suspect that the coiner of maritorious had meritorious in mind when he coined it. Uxorious gets its r legitimately from the Latin root. The root for maritorious is marit-; the second r has no business being in there. How much of its presence is due to the r in uxorious and how much to meritorious is up to debate. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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