macierz

Old Polish

Noun

macierz f

1. mother

   Synonyms: macica, maciora, mać

Descendants

• Polish: macierz

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish macierz (“mother”), from Proto-Slavic *màti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀtē, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of mać (“mother”), maciora (“female pig”), and mutra (“nut for a bolt”). mać comes from leveling to the nominative stem, macierz and maciora from leveling to the two oblique stems, and mutra was borrowed from German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡ɕɛʂ/

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• Rhymes: -at͡ɕɛʂ
• Syllabification: ma‧cierz

Noun

macierz f

1. matrix (notion in mathematics)
2. matrix (part of the mitochondrion)
3. (dated or literary) motherland, country of origin
4. (Cieszyn Silesia) mother

   Synonym: matka

Declension

Declension of macierz

	singular	plural
nominative	macierz	macierze
genitive	macierzy	macierzy
dative	macierzy	macierzom
accusative	macierz	macierze
instrumental	macierzą	macierzami
locative	macierzy	macierzach
vocative	macierzy	macierze

Derived terms

adjectives

• macierzowy
• macierzyński
• macierzysty

 

Further reading

• macierz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• macierz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Jadwiga Wronicz, editor (2010) Słownik gwarowy Śląska Cieszyńskiego, Ustroń: Galeria „Na Gojach”, →ISBN