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Designating a marriage (or the wife involved) between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank, often having various legal repercussions (typically that such a wife has no claim on the husband's possessions or title). It was not an aspect of English law, but was common in other royal houses, especially in Germany.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
(of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: left-handed
Antonyms: none provided
From New Latin morganāticus, from the Medieval Latin phrase mātrimōnium ad morganāticum, from Proto-Germanic *murgnagebō (“morning gift”) (whence Old English morgenġiefu).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
morganatique
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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German:
morganatisch
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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Ido:
morganatika
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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Italian:
morganatico
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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Latin:
morganaticus
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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Polish:
morganatyczny
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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Portuguese:
morganático
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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Russian:
морганати́ческий
(morganatíčeskij)
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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Spanish:
morganático
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
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Ukrainian:
морганати́чний
(morhanatýčnyj)
— designating a marriage between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank
