'Conjugal' is Latin for 'yoked together' — marriage as two people pulling under one yoke.
Relating to marriage or the relationship between a married couple; of or pertaining to the bond between spouses.
From Latin 'conjugālis' (of or pertaining to marriage, relating to a spouse), from 'conjux' ('conjunx') (spouse, literally 'one yoked together'), from 'conjungere' (to join together, to yoke, to couple), from 'con-' (together, with) + 'jugum' (yoke) or 'jungere' (to join), from PIE *yewg- (to join, to yoke). Marriage in ancient agricultural societies was conceived as the yoking of two people — like a pair of oxen working a field together, bound by a shared implement directing their joint labour. The PIE root *yewg- is extraordinarily productive: it gives Sanskrit
The grammatical term 'conjugate' (to list the forms of a verb) comes from the same root — Latin 'conjugāre' meant 'to yoke together,' and verb forms were seen as 'yoked together' in a paradigm, just as spouses were yoked in marriage. When you conjugate a verb, you are etymologically performing a marriage ceremony for its forms.
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