Fromnū̆pta(“married, wedded; covered, veiled”) +-iae(nominative plural inflection of-ia). For the plural morphology, compare other festival names such asSāturnālia as well as the wordfēriae(“festival”).[1]
^Paolo Acquaviva (2008)Lexical Plurals: A Morphosemantic Approach, Oxford University Press, page20.
^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nūbō”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page417
“nuptiae”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"nuptiae", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)