materno
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materno (feminine materna, masculine plural materni, feminine plural materne)
- (relational) mother; maternal, motherly
- Antonym: paterno
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- materno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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māternō
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Borrowed from Latin māternus (“maternal”), from Latin māter (“mother”).
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- Hyphenation: ma‧ter‧no
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materno (feminine materna, masculine plural maternos, feminine plural maternas)
- maternal; motherly (of, pertaining to or associated with mothers)
- Synonym: maternal
- amor materno ― motherly love
- maternal (related through the mother’s side of the family)
- avô materno ― maternal grandfather
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materno (feminine materna, masculine plural maternos, feminine plural maternas)
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- “materno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014