maternus Latin · revision 30990

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=ine-pro *méh₂tēr}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [maːˈtɛr.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [maˈtɛr.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''māternus''' (feminine māterna, neuter māternum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|māter|-nus|t1=mother]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨māter⟩ to [[itc-pro|*mātēr]] and [[ine-pro|*méh₂-tr-|t=mother]], cognate with [[osc|maatreís|t=of the mother]], [[sa|मातृ|tr=mātár-]], [[grc|μήτηρ|tr=mḗtēr]] and [[goh|muoter]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan gives Ennius as its first author.^(de Vaan 2008) In a tragedy a son speaks of avenging his father by draining his mother's blood, ''māternō sanguine''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is of or belonging to a mother, and of kinship, on the mother's side: Cicero speaks of his enemy's maternal kin of Transalpine blood.^(OLD 2012) Terence uses it of a mother's feelings, “motherly”.^(OLD 2012) Lucan has it of pregnancy, and Ovid of a thing that gives birth, as the sea from which Venus was born.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “maternal”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of a mother's blood.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of motherly feeling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of kin on the mother's side.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the sea that bore Venus.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a mother, [[m|en|maternal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # On the mother's side, related through the mother.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|motherly|alt=Motherly]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of [[m|en|pregnancy]]; that gives birth.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[māternālis]]

+ * [[māternitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[māter]]

+ * [[mātercula]]

+ * [[māterfamiliās]]

+ * [[mātertera]]

+ * [[mātrālis]]

+ * [[mātrēscō]]

+ * [[mātrīcālis]]

+ * [[mātricīda]]

+ * [[mātricīdium]]

+ * [[mātrīcula]]

+ * [[paternus]]

+ * [[mātrimōnium]]

+ * [[en|maternal]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}