Daily Ancestornubile
Nubile is Italian for an unmarried woman; in a civil marriage act it marks a bride who had never married before.
Nubile describes a woman who has not married. It is the female counterpart of celibe, and comes from Latin nubilis, of an age to marry, from nubere, to take a husband. In records it is a civil status, not an age.
In a marriage act the bride is nubile or vedova, widow. Do not confuse it with English nubile, which has a different sense. Zitella, old maid or spinster, is an informal word for an older unmarried woman.
As seen in a recordCivil marriage act (atto di matrimonio), Kingdom of Italy, 1880s
Anna Maria Capuano, nubile, di anni diciannove, filatrice, figlia di Nicola e di Teresa Ruggiero
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