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madre

See also: madré and mądre

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin māter, mātre (“mother, matron”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmadɾe/, [ˈma.ð̞ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -adɾe
  • Hyphenation: ma‧dre

Noun edit

madre f (plural madres)

  1. mother
    Synonym: ma

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish madre, from Latin mātre, singular ablative of māter, matris (“mother, matron”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmadɾe/, [ˈmad̪.ɾ̪ɪ]
  • Hyphenation: mad‧re

Noun edit

madre (Badlit spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

  1. a nun
    Synonyms: abadesa, mongha

Chavacano edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish madre.

Noun edit

madre

  1. nun

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmadɾe/ [ˈma.ð̞ɾɪ]
  • Rhymes: -adɾe
  • Hyphenation: ma‧dre

Noun edit

madre f (plural madres)

  1. (formal) mother
    Synonym: nai
  2. riverbed
  3. kernel of a cable
  4. (fishing) main line (in longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached)
    Synonym: estrallo
  5. tartar
    Synonym: sarro
  6. (also in the plural) womb; placenta
    Synonym: empreñadeira
  7. (games) base, safe place, haven
  8. (Catholicism, formal) nun

Derived terms edit

References edit

Italian edit

Etymology edit

From the older form matre, from Latin mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈma.dre/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -adre
  • Hyphenation: mà‧dre

Noun edit

madre f (plural madri)

  1. mother

Adjective edit

madre (invariable)

  1. (relational) mother
    lavoratrice madre ― working mother (literally, “mother worker”)
  2. that constitutes the origin of subsequent facts and phenomena
    causa madre ― root cause
    • 2020 October 1, Massimo Basile, “Misogini, anti-immigrati, suprematisti: chi sono i Proud Boys sdoganati da Trump [Misogynists, suprematists: who are the Proud Boys legitimated by Trump]”, in la Repubblica‎[1]:
      Si può far parte a vari livelli, da urlare in pubblico slogan pro occidente a farsi tatuare il nome Proud Boys fino alla prova madre: partecipare a scontri.
      You can be a part of it at various levels, from yelling pro-Western slogans in public to tattooing the name Proud Boys all the way to the principal test: participating in clashes.

Related terms edit

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • madre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • madre in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Anagrams edit

Ladino edit

Noun edit

madre f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מאדרי)

  1. mother
    Coordinate term: padre (פאדרי)

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin mātrem, accusative singular of māter (“mother, matron”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

madre f

  1. mother
    Synonym: mãy
    Coordinate terms: pay, padre
  2. riverbed
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 183:
      et nõ colle as agoas nẽ as torna aa madre ata quea noyte nõ aja as oras ygoães cõ odia. Et em esta rrazõ sobre este lugar da fonte do Nylo achamos que ouverõ [hũus] dos auçiaos hũa créénça vãa: queo cresçer da fonte do Nylo donde el sal por las terras et rrega as herdades, diziam que aquel cresçer quelle [vyña] daquelas neves de Etiopia
      and [the Nile] doesn't take the waters nor return them to the riverbed till the night has its hours equal to that of the day. Because of this, about this place of the source of the Nile, we find that some of the old scholars had a vain belief: that the flooding of the Nile's source, where it springs from the earth and waters the fields, was due to the snows of Ethiopia

Descendants edit

  • Galician: madre
  • Portuguese: madre

References edit

  • “madre” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “madre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”), from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate of mãe.

Pronunciation edit

 

Noun edit

madre f (plural madres)

  1. (Christianity) mother (nun)
    Madre superiora. ― Mother superior.
  2. (anatomy) womb
  3. mold

Further reading edit

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin mātrem (“mother, matron”), from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare English matron.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmadɾe/ [ˈma.ð̞ɾe]
  • Bolivian pronunciation:(file)
  • Rhymes: -adɾe
  • Syllabification: ma‧dre

Noun edit

madre f (plural madres)

  1. mother
    Synonym: mamá
  2. (figuratively) mother (source or origin)
    Synonyms: causa, raíz, origen
  3. (Christianity) mother (nun)
  4. (hydrology) riverbed
    Synonyms: álveo, cauce, lecho
  5. dregs (of a drink)
  6. (Mexico, colloquial, vulgar, slang) thing

Coordinate terms edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish madre, from Latin mātrem, singular accusative of māter (“mother, matron”).

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: ma‧dre
  • IPA(key): /ˈmadɾe/, [ˈma.dɾɛ]

Noun edit

madre (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

  1. (Catholicism) nun
    Synonyms: relihiyosa, sister
  2. (geology) mother lode
    Synonym: inang-bato
  3. (carpentry, in general) frame; spindle; principal piece, log, or beam
    Synonyms: hamba, balangkas
  4. (chemistry) principal chemical vehicle (in a solution)
  5. (archaic, rare) mother
    Synonyms: ina, nanay, inay, inang, mama

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • “madre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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