uxorius

Derived from uxor (“wife”) +‎ -ius (adjective-forming suffix).

uxōrius (feminine uxōria, neuter uxōrium); first/second-declension adjective

1. belonging to a wife
2. pertaining to or characteristic of a wife: wifish, wifely, wifey
3. overly fond of, excessively devoted to, or submissive to one’s wife: uxorious, doting
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.265–267:

     Continuō invādit: “Tū nunc Karthāginis altae
     fundāmenta locās, pulchramque uxōrius urbem
     exstruis heu rēgnī rērumque oblīte tuārum?”

     Immediately, [Mercury] assails [Aeneas]: “You now lay the foundations of high Carthage, and build a noble city for a woman’s sake – alas! – mindless of your [own] realm and real destiny?”
     (The love affair of Dido and Aeneas threatens to alter the entwined futures of Carthage and Rome. Translations vary – Mandelbaum, 1971: “as servant to a woman”; Fagles, 2006: “doting on your wife”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “tame husband that you are”; Ahl, 2007: “obsessed with your wife”; Bartsch, 2020: “acting the good husband”; Ruden, 2021: “your wife must like you”.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• English: uxorious
• Italian: uxorio

• “uxorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Oxford Latin Dictionary (2005), Oxford University Press