matertera

Latin

Etymology

From māter (“mother”) and the contrastive suffix *-teros which is also found in magister and minister.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maːˈter.te.ra/, [mäːˈt̪ɛrt̪ɛrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈter.te.ra/, [mäˈt̪ɛrt̪erä]

Noun

mātertera f (genitive māterterae); first declension

1. maternal aunt

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mātertera	māterterae
Genitive	māterterae	māterterārum
Dative	māterterae	māterterīs
Accusative	māterteram	māterterās
Ablative	māterterā	māterterīs
Vocative	mātertera	māterterae

Derived terms

• abmātertera

Related terms

• māter
• mātercula
• māterfamiliās
• māternitās
• māternus
• mātrālis
• mātrēscō
• mātrīcālis
• mātricīda
• mātricīdium
• mātrīcula
• mātrīculārius
• mātrimōniālis
• mātrimōnium
• mātrimus
• mātrīx
• mātrōna
• mātrōnālis
• mātrōnātus
• mātruēlis

See also

• amita
• avunculus
• patruus

References

• “matertera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “matertera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• matertera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• matertera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.