unmarried, single · associated with or pertaining to being single, solitary or unmarried · of a genus name: not yet formally associated with any specific epithet as part of a complete binomial species name
zıt: marītus
köken: Unknown. Suggestions include Proto-Indo-European *kéywelos (“alone”), whence Sanskrit केवल (kévala, “alone”), but the root is obscure and the suffix unexplained. Alternatively, possibly a suffixation of the similarly-shaped Proto-Indo-European *koyl- (see *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed, whole”)), via unattested *cael, though the b in the Latin form remains mysterious.
aile: caelibātus
Nil ait esse prius, melius nil caelibe vita.
Aucupor in lecto mendaces caelibe somnos; / dum careo veris gaudia falsa iuvant.
Livia sic tecum sociales compleat annos, quae, nisi te, nullo coniuge digna fuit, quae si non esset, caelebs te vita deceret,