On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:30:01PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jeremy Bornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > More like creation--on the theory that creating a husband is the > > opposite of ending a wife. > > hm....but isn't marriage the creation of both a husband and a wife, Jeremy?
Sure, but the Latin word "maritus" means both, and I do not think there is a Latin word which means "husband" only and not "marriage"--even "conjugium" can mean either. -J
