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madre

See also: madré and mądre

Asturian

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Etymology

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

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

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madre f (plural madres)

  1. mother
    Synonym: ma

Cebuano

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

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

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madre (Badlit spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

  1. a nun
    Synonyms: abadesa, mongha

Chavacano

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Inherited from Spanish madre.

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madre

  1. nun

French

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From Old French madre, developed (with dr < sdr < sr as e.g. in coudre) from earlier *mas(d)re, from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz (“veined, knobby or singed wood”). Cognate with German Maser, Old Norse mǫsurr.

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madre m (uncountable)

  1. veined wood
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Galician

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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

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Italian

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Etymology

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

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

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madre f (plural madri)

  1. mother

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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.
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Further reading

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

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Noun

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madre f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מאדרי)

  1. mother
    Coordinate term: padre (פאדרי)

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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

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    madre f (plural madres)

    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

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    • Galician: madre
    • Portuguese: madre

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    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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

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    madre f (plural madres)

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

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    Spanish

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    Etymology

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

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    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

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    Tagalog

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    Etymology

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

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    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

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