materteral
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin mātertera (“maternal aunt”) + -al.
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materteral (comparative more materteral, superlative most materteral)
- Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an aunt.
- 2013 October 5, Bee Rowlatt, “Japan's new luxury sleeper train [print edition: Suite surrender on the rails]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Travel)[1], archived from the original on 9 November 2013, page T9:
- A materteral lady told me that people come here from the city in search of peace.
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- The Oxford English Dictionary has materteral and materterine, both derived from the Latin mātertera ("maternal aunt"), and described as "humorously pedantic"; for "characteristic of an aunt". There are two quotations : With maternal and materteral anxiety (1823) and A kindly materterine message (1874).