Feminine
madre
Sentences
Meaning
- (feminine) mother
- (feminine, figuratively) mother (source or origin)
- (feminine) mother (nun)
- (feminine) riverbed
- (feminine) dregs (of a drink)
- (Mexico, colloquial, feminine, slang, vulgar) thing
Concepts
female parent
female parents
maternal effects
’rents
Synonyms
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ma‧dre
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmadɾe/
Etymology
In summary
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Italic *mātēr Latin māter Spanish madre Inherited from Latin mātrem (“mother, matron”), from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare English matron.
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