Marriage is to Concubinage,
(Noun describing the nature of relationship status)
as
Married is to … Concubinary, roughly.
(Adjective describing the person in the relationship)
Its basically just that ‘concubine’ related terminology is quite uncommon in modern English… at least from my personal understanding, the more common, roughly equivalent term is ‘domestic partner’ and its derivatives, to describe people who live together (and often, have done so for a number of years) and are intimate, but not legally married… but that tends to imply a monogamous relationship, where ‘concubine’ tends to imply some kind of polyamorous situation, usually when a man already has a legal wife, and has an additional woman in the home, but also a legal power/status disparity between the man, wife and concubine.
… The technical legal differences, as well as used terminology, between every kind of relationship status listed in the image… vary significantly from county to country and region to region.
To illustrate this: I’d never even heard of a ‘free union’ before until I saw this, apparently that is roughly a French/European(?) term/equivalent for ‘domestic partnership’ or ‘common law marriage’ … but not quite…?
Yes.
Marriage is to Concubinage, (Noun describing the nature of relationship status)
as
Married is to … Concubinary, roughly. (Adjective describing the person in the relationship)
Its basically just that ‘concubine’ related terminology is quite uncommon in modern English… at least from my personal understanding, the more common, roughly equivalent term is ‘domestic partner’ and its derivatives, to describe people who live together (and often, have done so for a number of years) and are intimate, but not legally married… but that tends to imply a monogamous relationship, where ‘concubine’ tends to imply some kind of polyamorous situation, usually when a man already has a legal wife, and has an additional woman in the home, but also a legal power/status disparity between the man, wife and concubine.
… The technical legal differences, as well as used terminology, between every kind of relationship status listed in the image… vary significantly from county to country and region to region.
To illustrate this: I’d never even heard of a ‘free union’ before until I saw this, apparently that is roughly a French/European(?) term/equivalent for ‘domestic partnership’ or ‘common law marriage’ … but not quite…?