matutinal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French matutinal (modern French matutinal), and from its etymon Late Latin mātūtīnālis (“(adjective) belonging to the morning; of or pertaining to matins; (noun) morning hymn or psalm; book of lauds”), from Latin mātūtīnus (“of, occurring in, or pertaining to the early morning, matutine”) (from Mātūta (“Roman goddess of the dawn or morning”) (from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to mature, ripen; opportune, timely; good, great”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship).

Sense 2 (“active in the morning; waking up early”) is possibly modelled after French matinal (“relating to the morning, matinal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈtjuːtɪnl̩/, /-ˈt͡ʃuː-/, /ˌmætjʊˈtaɪnl̩/, /-ˈt͡ʃʊ-/
• IPA^(key): /məˈt(j)utənl̩/, [-ɾə-], /ˈmæt͡ʃəˌtaɪn(ə)l/
• Rhymes: -aɪnəl
• Hyphenation: ma‧tut‧in‧al

Adjective

matutinal (not comparable) (formal or literary)

1. Of, occurring in, or relating to the morning, especially the early morning upon waking up.

   Synonyms: matinal, matitudinal, (chiefly US, rare) matutinary, matutine

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Pen, putting on his hat, strode forth into the air, and almost over the body of the matutinal housemaid, who was rubbing the steps at the door.

   • 1874, Henry James, "Professor Fargo" in The Galaxy 18(2) (August 1874): 233–253.

     [A] young lady was introduced who had come to request him to raise a ghost—a resolute young lady, with several ringlets and a huge ancestral umbrella, whose matutinal appetite for the supernatural had not been quenched by the raw autumnal storm.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:

     'Top 'o the mornin' to ye!' he called to Flory in a hearty matutinal voice, putting on an Irish accent.

2. Active in the morning; waking up early.

Hypernyms

• crepuscular

Coordinate terms

• diurnal
• nocturnal
• vespertine

Translations

of, occurring in, or relating to the early morning

• Bulgarian: утринен (utrinen)
• French: matutinal (fr)
• German: morgendlich (de)
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• Irish: maidiniúil, maidine (attributive)
• Romanian: matinal (ro)
• Russian: у́тренний (ru) (útrennij)

active in the morning; waking up early

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Further reading

• matutinal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “matutinal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “matutinal, adj.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Atlantium

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

matutinal (feminine matutinale, masculine plural matutinaux, feminine plural matutinales)

1. (literary) matutinal

Further reading

• “matutinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.