better half

Significado (Inglés)

1. A person's spouse or lover, most commonly a man's wife.
2. (archaic) A very close friend or companion.

Conceptos

matrimonio

media naranja

Sinónimos

spouse

wife

👰‍♀️

married person

mate

🧉

partner

goodwife

family

👪

couple

👫

Traducciones

صاحِب

شرِيك حياة

بعْل

بعْلة

حلِيل

قرِين

صاحِبة

قرِينة

شرِيكة حياة

boda

💒

matrimoni

💍

cònjuge

consort

زَوْج

Etimología (Inglés)

Ultimately from such Latin poetic phrases as animae dīmidium meae (“half of my soul”) (Horace writing about Virgil), when it instead referred to a close friend (compare soulmate). First written instance of it meaning “spouse” was in 1580 by Sir Philip Sidney.