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Celibe is Italian for a man who has never married, a bachelor; in a civil marriage act it marks a groom marrying for the first time.
Celibe, from Latin caelebs, describes a man who has not married. It is the word for civil status in marriage and death acts, and the female counterpart is nubile. Only rarely is celibe used of a woman.
In a marriage act the groom is either celibe or vedovo, widower. Do not read celibe as a sign of a religious vow; in records it simply means single. Other words with a similar sense are scapolo, bachelor, and libero, free, which can also mean unmarried.
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