Conubium matrimonium permittit.

to allow

Breakdown of Conubium matrimonium permittit.

• matrimonium: marriage; matrimony
• conubium: the legal right of marriage; intermarriage

Questions & Answers about Conubium matrimonium permittit.

What do conubium, matrimonium, and permittit mean grammatically?

• conubium is a noun, singular, neuter, from the second declension.
• matrimonium is also a noun, singular, neuter, from the second declension.
• permittit is a verb, third person singular, present tense, active voice, from permittere.

So the basic structure is:

• conubium = a thing
• matrimonium = another thing
• permittit = permits / allows

In very simple grammatical terms, the sentence means:

X permits Y.

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Which word is the subject, and which word is the object?

The most natural reading is:

• conubium = subject
• matrimonium = direct object

So:

• conubium = marital eligibility / the legal right to marry
• matrimonium = marriage
• permittit = permits

Therefore: Conubium permits matrimonium = Marital eligibility permits marriage.

The reason learners ask this is that both conubium and matrimonium end in , so they look very similar. In fact, both are forms that can be either or .