sposalizio

Meaning

Noun

a wedding ceremony

Name

the ritual wedding of Venice with the sea in which a ring is dropped into the water by a doge from a bucintoro (properly "lo sposalizio del mare")

Concepts

wedding

💒

marriage

💍

hymeneals

nuptials

wedding ceremony

marriage ceremony

matrimony

intermarriage

ceremony

Synonyms

matrimonio

💍

nozze

💒

sponsali

Translations

casamento

💒

mariage

💍

Hochzeit

💒

boda

💒

boda

💒

Heirat

bruiloft

noces

düğün

casamiento

💍

γάμος

Trauung

matrimonio

nuptiae

💒

Hyphenated as

spo‧sa‧lì‧zio

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spo.zaˈlit.t͡sjo/

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spōnsālicius.