conubium

cōnūbium (not connū-), n

com-+nubo, marriage, wedlock (as a civil institution; cf. coniugium, the personal union), C.: per conubia Gaetulos secum miscuere, S.: natae, V.: nostra, with me , O.: Pyrrhin' conubia servas?V.: conubiis ambire Latinum, i. e. for his daughter's hand , V.— The right of intermarriage : conubia plebei cum patribus sancire: patrum et plebis, L.— Sexual union , O.