madre

See also: madré and mądre

Asturian

Etymology

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

Noun

madre f (plural madres)

1. mother

   Synonym: ma

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Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma‧dre

Noun

madre

1. a nun

Synonyms

• abadesa, mongha

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish madre.

Noun

madre

1. nun

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaðɾɪ]

Noun

madre f (plural madres)

1. (formal) mother

   Synonym: nai

2. riverbed
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), 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

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

Derived terms

• esmadroar
• madreselva

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “madre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “madre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “madre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “madre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “madre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.dre/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -adre
• Hyphenation: mà‧dre

Noun

madre f (plural madri)

1. mother

Adjective

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.

Related terms

• dura madre
• madre sostitutiva
• madrecicala
• madreggiare
• madrelingua, madre lingua
• madrepatria
• madreperla
• madrevite
• madrina
• matre
• matrigna
• vicemadre

 

See also

• genitore
• mamma
• padre

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• -derma, derma, derma-, merda

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Ladino

Noun

madre f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מאדרי)

1. mother

Coordinate terms

• padre (פאדרי)

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadɾe/

Noun

madre f (plural madres)

1. mother
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 4 (facsimile):

     A madre do que liurou / dos Leões Daniel / Eſſa do fogo Guardou / un Menỹo Dirrael.

     The Mother of Him who delivered Daniel from the lions saved a little boy of the tribe of Israel from the fire.

Synonyms

• mãy

Antonyms

• pay, padre

Descendants

• Galician: madre
• Portuguese: madre

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ðɾɨ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈma.dɾi/

Noun

madre f (plural madres)

1. (Christianity) mother (nun)

   Madre superiora. ― Mother superior.

2. (anatomy) womb
3. mold

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadɾe/ [ˈma.ð̞ɾe]

• Bolivian pronunciation:

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Noun

madre f (plural madres)

1. mother

   Synonym: mamá

   Antonym: padre

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

Derived terms

(diminutive madrecita) (augmentative madraza)

• célula madre
• chingar a su madre
• ciento y la madre
• (colloquial, Mexico) a toda madre
• (colloquial, Mexico) desmadre
• comadre
• concha de de madre
• Día de la Madre
• hijo de su madre
• la madre del cordero
• la madre putria
• la madre que te parió
• madrastra
• madre adoptiva
• madre biológica
• madre de alquiler
• madre del cordero
• madre mía
• Madre Tierra
• madrina
• masa madre
• mentar la madre
• placa madre
• puta madre
• roca madre
• sacar la madre
• salirse de madre
• valer madre
• (vulgar) conchatumadre
• (vulgar) tu madre
• (vulgar, colloquial) de puta madre
• (vulgar, Mexico) hasta la madre (pregnant; fed up, full)
• (vulgar, Mexico) madrear

 

Related terms

• materno
• matriz

Descendants

• Tagalog: madre

Further reading

• “madre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma‧dre
• IPA^(key): /ma ˈdɾe/, [mɐ ˈd̪ɾɛ]

Noun

madre (plural mga madre)

1. nun