concubine
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//ˈkɑŋkjəbaɪn//
A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
nom
- 1
A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
- 2
A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
And that is more than I will yield unto: / I know I am too mean to be your queen, / And yet too good to be your concubine.
- 3
historiqueA slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.
He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch, And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
Étymologie
From Middle English concubine (first attested 1250–1300), from Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concubīna, equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumbō (“to lie together”)) + feminine suffix -īna.
Formes
- pluriel
- concubines
concubine · A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
concussion · An injury to part of the body, most especially the brain,…condemn · To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.condemned · Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.