uxōrĭus, a, um, adj. [uxor], of or belonging to a wife or married woman.
I In gen.
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. 829: 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.—
B Subst.: uxōrĭum , ii, n., a tax laid on old-bachelors , the old-bachelor tax , Fest. p. 379 Müll.—
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.