matertera Latin · revision 9236

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *méh₂tēr}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [maːˈtɛr.tɛ.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [maˈtɛr.te.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mātertera''' ''f'' (genitive māterterae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[māter]] “mother” with the contrastive suffix ⟨*-teros⟩ found also in [[magister]] and [[minister]], so “one like a mother”.^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short explained it as “a second mother”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus, whom he dates c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a mother's sister, a maternal aunt, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The jurists called a grandmother's sister ''mātertera magna'', and further degrees ''mātertera maior'' and ''maxima''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Aldhelm and other British Medieval Latin writers used it for a maternal aunt, as of the mother of James, the Lord's aunt.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 533 AD – The Digest defines ''mātertera magna''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A maternal [[m|en|aunt]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abmātertera]]

+ * [[prōmātertera]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[māter]]

+ * [[amita]]

+ * [[avunculus]]

+ * [[patruus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The father's sister was ''amita'', and the mother's brother ''avunculus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}