uxorious (adj.)

"excessively fond of or submissive to one's wife," 1590s, from Latin uxorius "of or pertaining to a wife," also "devoted to a wife" or "ruled by a wife," from uxor (genitive uxoris) "wife," according to Watkins from PIE *uk-sor- "'she who gets accustomed" (to a new household)' after patrilocal marriage," but de Vaan finds that "impossible morphologically and far-fetched semantically" and also dismisses the other two proposed explanations he lists.

also from 1590s

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uxorial (adj.)

"of or pertaining to a wife, peculiar to or befitting a married woman," 1778, from Latin uxoris (see uxorious) + -al (1). It is sometimes used in the sense of uxorius.

We still say that a husband hangs out the broom when his wife goes from home for a short time; and on such occasions a broom besom has been exhibited as a signal that the house was freed from uxorial restraint, and where the master might be considered as a temporary bachelor. [Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, notes to "The Tempest," 1778]

uxoricide (n.)

1804, "the murder of one's wife;" 1830, "one who kills his wife;" from French uxoricide, or else a native formation from Latin uxor "wife" (see uxorious) + -cide "killing/killer." Related: Uxoricidal.

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