Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Nupta

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

NUP'TA (νύμφη). A bride; meaning, literally, a female who is covered with a veil (from nubere), because the Roman women enveloped themselves from head to foot in a large yellow-coloured veil at the wedding, as shown by the annexed figure (Nupta/1.1) of a bride, in a Roman bas-relief, representing a marriage ceremony. Cic. Ov. Caes. Juv. &c.

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