bridegroom; betrothed man
Latin word, found 33 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Amores 1.13.19: Atque vades sponsum stultos ante Atria mittis,
Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 4.39.3: … idem, si nives cadent. Surgam ad sponsalia, quia promisi, quamvis non concoxerim ; sed non, si febricitavero. Sponsum descendam, quia promisi; sed non, si spondere me in incertum iubebis, si fisco obligabis. Subest, inquam, tac …
All forms of sponsus