matro

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian madre and Spanish madre, from Latin māter, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.tro/

Noun

matro (plural matri)

1. mother

Usage notes

Originally patro meant "parent", while the derivatives patrulo meant "father" and patrino meant "mother", but in later times this was changed so patro meant father, while adding genitoro and matro to mean "parent" and "mother".

Synonyms

• mama
• (diminutive) matreto
• (archaic) patrino

Hypernyms

• genitoro (“parent”)
• (archaic) patro (“parent”)

Coordinate terms

• patro (“father”)
• papa (“father”)
• (diminutive) patreto
• (archaic) patrulo

Derived terms

• matrala (“maternal”)
• matreso (“motherhood, maternity”)
• matreto (“mommy”)
• stifa matro/stif-matro (“stepmother”)
• baptomatro (“godmother”)
• bomatro (“mother-in-law”)

Further reading

• matr-o in Ido-English Dictionary by L. H. Dyer, 1924