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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Sposato

Pronunciation / Transliteration: spɔˈzato

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Married/ˈmærid/
adjectiveCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #250 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"È sposato con la sua compagna di università."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Joined in marriage; having a spouse.

    "She is married to her college sweetheart."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense of marry; to have entered into a marriage.

    "They married in a small ceremony last summer."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English word 'marien', which came from the Old French 'marier', ultimately originating from the Latin 'maritare' meaning 'to wed or to provide a husband or wife'. The term evolved historically to describe the legal and social status of individuals joined in matrimony.

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