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matertera

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Picture dictionary: Network Diagram for Roman Extended Families

/marītus sorōris

/ uxor frātris

frāter uxōris

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maːˈtɛr.tɛ.ra]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mäˈt̪ɛr.t̪e.rä]

Noun

mātertera f (genitive māterterae); first declension

maternal aunt

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

abmātertera

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See also

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.

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