gamo-, gam-, -gamy, -gamous +
(Greek: marriage, union; wedding; pertaining to sexual union)
isonogamia
Denotes marriage between persons of the same or nearly the same age.
karyogamy
A fusion of cell nuclei that occurs in fertilization or true conjugation.
misogamist
Someone who hates marriage.
A man who never Mrs. any woman.
—Evan Esar. Esar’s Comic Dictionary
misogamous
A hatred of or aversion to marriage.
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
monogamist
One who is married to one spouse.
monogamy, monogamous
1. The condition, rule, or custom of being married to only one person at a time (opposed to polygamy or bigamy); chiefly applied to the rule or custom (more explicitly called monogyny) by which a man can have only one wife, but also including monandry, the rule or custom by which a woman can have only one husband.
2. The practice or principle of marrying only once, or of not remarrying after the death of the first spouse:; the opposite of digamy.
nomogamosis
Marriage between persons highly suitable for each other.
octogamy, octogamous
Being married to eight spouses.
opsigamous
1. Marriage late in life.
2. Marriage in which one or both partners are quite advanced in age.
pantagamy, pantagamous; pantogamy, pantogamous
1. Community marriage in which every woman is married to every man, and vice versa.
2. A communistic system of complex marriage, in which all the men and women of a household or community are regarded as married to each other. The Masai tribes of Kenya and parts of Tanzania are said to practice this form of marriage.
pentagamist
One who has five spouses.
pentagamy, pentagamous
Married to five spouses at the same time.
polyandrist
1. The marriage of a woman to several (more than two) men at the same time.
2. A woman who practices, or favors, polyandry.
polygamist
Someone who commits polygamy.
polygamy, polygamous
1. The civil offense of having several wives or husbands at the same time; or having more than two wives or husbands at the same time.
2. Bigamy literally means a second marriage distinguished from a third or additional marriage; while polygamy means many marriages and implies more than two.
To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness.
—Dutch Proverb
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him even more if he finds her.
—Benjamin Tillett
Regardless of how they are expressed, all of them represent excesses!
With polygyny and polygynous, we have the marriage of a man to more than two women at the same time. Then we have polygamy and polygamous:
- The civil offense of having several wives or husbands at the same time; or having more than two wives or husbands at the same time.
- Bigamy literally means a second marriage distinguished from a third or additional marriage; while polygamy means many marriages and implies more than two.
Polygamia est plurium simul virorum uxorumve conubium.
"Polygamy is the marriage with many husbands or wives at one time".
There are more details about polygamy here.
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