matrona

See also: matróna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”).

Noun

matrona (plural matronas)

1. In Ancient Rome, a wife of an honorable man.

Anagrams

• Maranto

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”).

Noun

matrona f (plural matrone)

1. matron

Related terms

• matronale
• matronale

Anagrams

• marnato
• normata
• tarmano
• tramano
• maronat

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Latin

Etymology

From māter (“mother; matron”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maːˈtroː.na/, [mäːˈt̪roːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈtro.na/, [mäˈt̪rɔːnä]

Noun

mātrōna f (genitive mātrōnae); first declension

1. A married woman, wife or matron, especially of an honorable man.
2. A title of Juno.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mātrōna	mātrōnae
Genitive	mātrōnae	mātrōnārum
Dative	mātrōnae	mātrōnīs
Accusative	mātrōnam	mātrōnās
Ablative	mātrōnā	mātrōnīs
Vocative	mātrōna	mātrōnae

Derived terms

• mātrōnālis
• mātrōnātus

Related terms

• māter
• mātercula
• māterfamiliās
• māternitās
• māternus

• mātertera
• mātrālis
• mātrēscō
• mātrīcālis
• mātricīda

• mātricīdium
• mātrīcula
• mātrīculārius
• mātrimōniālis

• mātrimōnium
• mātrimus
• mātrīx
• mātruēlis

Descendants

• Catalan: matrona
• English: matron, matrona
• French: matrone

• Italian: matrona
• Portuguese: matrona
• Russian: матрона (matrona)
• Spanish: matrona

References

• “matrona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “matrona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• matrona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• matrona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “matrona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “matrona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”).

Noun

matrona f (plural matronas)

1. matron
2. midwife

Synonyms

• (midwife): comadrona, partera