单词 | confarreation |
释义 | confarreation —confarreate /keuhn far"ee it, -ayt'/, confarreated, adj. /kon far'ee ay"sheuhn/, n. (among the ancient Romans) a form of marriage ceremony, limited to patricians and obligatory for holders of certain ritual offices, marked by the offering of a cake. [1590-1600; < L confarreation- (s. of confarreatio) equiv. to confarrea(re) to contract such a marriage (con- CON- + -farreare, v. deriv. of farreum cake made of emmer, deriv. of far emmer; see BARLEY1) + -tion- -TION] |
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