Morganatic

Definition: Morganatic

Morganatic

Adjective

1. (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior.

Date "morganatic" was first used: 1727. (references)

Etymology: Morganatic \Mor`ga*nat"ic\, adjective. [from Late Latin expression matrimonium ad morganaticam, from morganatica morning gift, kind of dowry paid on the morning before or after the marriage, from Old High German. morgan morning, in morgangeba morning gift, German morgengabe. See Morn.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Morganatic

Synonym: left-handed (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Morganatic

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Marriage	Unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill-assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de convenance.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Morganatic

English words defined with "morganatic": Left-handed marriage. (references)

Specialty definitions using "morganatic": Morganatic Marriage. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Morganatic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (morganatic).

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Usage Frequency: Morganatic

"Morganatic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Morganatic" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	6	143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Morganatic

Expression using "morganatic": morganatic marriage. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Morganatic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
morganatic	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Morganatic

Language		Translations for "morganatic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		morganatik. (various references)

Bulgarian		морганатичен (left handed). (various references)

Dutch		morganatisch (morganatical). (various references)

Esperanto		morganata (morganatical). (various references)

Finnish		morganaattinen avioliitto (left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage). (various references)

French		mariage morganatique (morganatic marriage). (various references)

German		morganatisch. (various references)

Greek		μοργανατικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		rangon aluli házasság (disparagement, misalliance). (various references)

Italian		morganatico. (various references)

Manx		morgantagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		organaticmay

Portuguese		morganático. (various references)

Romanian		morganatic. (various references)

Russian		морганатический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		morgantski. (various references)

Spanish		morganático (left handed). (various references)

Swedish		morganatisk (left handed). (various references)

Turkish		dengi dengine olmayan (left handed). (various references)

Ukrainian		морганатичеський. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Morganatic

Language	Period	Translations
Medieval Latin	700-1500	matrimonium ad morganaticam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Morganatic

Derivations
	Words beginning with "morganatic": morganatically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Morganatic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: morganastic, morganites, morganitic, morgantic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Morganatic"

Words rhyming with "morganatic" (pronounced 'Mor`ga*nat"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Morganatic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-m-n-o-r-t"
	-2 letters: anatomic, animator, armonica, aromatic, caroming, contagia, macaroni, marocain, martagon, raincoat, romantic.
	-3 letters: acromia, agnatic, angioma, animato, anticar, argotic, carotin, carting, coaming, coating, crating, granita, manioca, mantric, marcato, martian, marting, migrant, minorca, moating, ocarina, orating, organic, roaming, tamarin, tangram, tracing, trangam.
	-4 letters: acinar, acting, action, agamic, agaric, agonic, airman, amrita, amtrac, angora, anomic, antiar.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-m-n-o-r-t"
	+2 letters: aeromagnetic, camphorating.
	+3 letters: achromatizing, cinematograph, galvanometric, gastronomical, monogrammatic.
	+4 letters: cinematographs, cinematography, morganatically, nongrammatical, organometallic, phantasmagoric.
	+5 letters: antilogarithmic, cinematographer, cinematographic, circumnavigator, countercampaign, gastronomically, megacorporation, micromanagement, organometallics, pharmacognostic, recontaminating.
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