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.

Traducións

صاحِب

شرِيك حياة

بعْل

بعْلة

حلِيل

قرِين

صاحِبة

قرِينة

شرِيكة حياة

زَوْج

Etimoloxía (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.

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