- (of a marriage)
in which the title or possessions of the partner who has higher social rank will not be passed on to the other partner, or to their children 摩納哥人:社會地位較高的夥伴的頭銜或財産不會轉移給另一夥伴或他們的孩子 Oxford Collocations DictionaryMorganatic is used with these nouns:- marriage
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from modern Latin morganaticus, from medieval Latin matrimonium ad morganaticam ‘marriage with a morning gift’ (because a morning gift, given by a husband to his wife on the morning after the marriage, was the wife's sole entitlement in a marriage of this kind).