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)
- 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