"nuptials" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈnʌp.ʃəlz/, /ˈnʌp.t͡ʃ(ʊ)əlz/ (note: influenced by words ending in -tual, sometimes proscribed) Audio: en-au-nuptials.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: From nuptial, borrowed from Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), from nūptiae (“wedding”) (also plural only), from nūpta, from nūbō (“to marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho-, *snewbʰ- (“to marry, wed”). Cognate with French noces and Italian nozze. Etymology templates: {{m|en|nuptial}} nuptial, {{bor|en|la|nūptiālis||pertaining to marriage}} Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), {{m|la|nūptiae||wedding}} nūptiae (“wedding”), {{m|la|nūpta}} nūpta, {{m|la|nūbō||to marry, to take as husband}} nūbō (“to marry, to take as husband”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*sneubho-}} Proto-Indo-European *sneubho-, {{m|ine-pro|*snewbʰ-||to marry, wed}} *snewbʰ- (“to marry, wed”), {{cog|fr|noces}} French noces, {{cog|it|nozze}} Italian nozze Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} nuptials pl (plural only)
  1. A wedding ceremony. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Marriage Synonyms: wedding Related terms: nubile, nuptial, nuptial act, nuptiality Translations (wedding ceremony — see also wedding): հարսանիք (harsanikʻ) (Armenian), häät (Finnish), noces [feminine, plural] (French), ქორწილი (korc̣ili) (Georgian), nász (Hungarian), nozze [feminine, plural] (Italian), دوگون (düğün) (Ottoman Turkish), سور (sur) (Ottoman Turkish), عرس (ʼurs) (Ottoman Turkish), سور (sur) (Persian), zaślubiny [plural] (Polish), ślub [masculine] (Polish), wesele [neuter] (Polish), núpcias [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), бракосочета́ние (brakosočetánije) [neuter] (Russian), nupcias [feminine, plural] (Spanish), bröllop [neuter] (Swedish), vigsel [common-gender] (Swedish)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.