mãe
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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese mãy, from madre, from Latin māter (“mother”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”).
Compare Galician mai, nai, Mirandese and Leonese mai, Asturian ma and Aragonese mai.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mãe f (plural mães)
- mother (female who gives birth to or parents a child)
- (figuratively) mother (source or origin)
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A Ibéria é a mãe da Era do Descobrimento.
- Iberia is the mother of the Age of Discovery.
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- (attributive, in compounds) whence others spawn, are generated, are copied or stem
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nave-mãe
- mothership
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célula-mãe
- stem cell
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- lees (sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages)
Synonyms[edit]
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (female parent): pai
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from mãe
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Descendants
Further reading[edit]
- mãe in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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