dura mater

English

Etymology

First attested c. 1400 borrowing from Medieval Latin dūra māter (literally “firm, strict mother”), ellipsis of dūra māter cerebrī (literally “hard mother of the brain”), calque of Arabic أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة (ʔumm al-ddimāḡ aṣ-ṣafīqa, literally “thick mother of the brain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdjʊə.ɹə ˈmeɪ.tə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə ˌmeɪ.tɚ/, /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə ˌmɑt.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

dura mater (plural durae matres) (abbreviated dura)

1. (anatomy) The tough and inflexible outermost of the three layers of the meninges, enveloping the brain and spinal cord.

   Coordinate terms: arachnoid, pia mater

Translations

outermost layer of the meninges

• Arabic: الأم الجافية (al-umm al-jāfiya)
• Catalan: duramàter f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬腦膜／硬脑膜 (yìngnǎomó), 硬脑膜 (yìngnǎomó); 硬脊膜 (yìngjǐmó)

• Dutch: Hard hersenvlies, Dura mater
• Finnish: kovakalvo (fi)
• French: dure-mère (fr)
• German: Dura mater (de)
• Ido: duramatro (io)
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• Italian: dura madre (it), duramadre f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: perdeya req f

• Polish: opona twarda f
• Portuguese: dura-máter f
• Russian: Твёрдая мозговая оболочка (Tvjórdaja mozgovaja oboločka)
• Serbo-Croatian: tvrda moždana ovojnica f
• Spanish: duramadre (es)
• Swedish: hårda hjärnhinnan c

References

• “dura mater”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dura mater”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• armatured

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin dura mater.

Noun

dura mater f (uncountable)

1. dura mater

Declension

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