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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mātrōna.
Pronunciation
Noun
матро́на • (matróna) f anim (genitive матро́ны, nominative plural матро́ны, genitive plural матро́н)
- (historical) matrona (a wife of an honorable man in Ancient Rome)
1893, Антон Чехов , “II”, in Рассказ неизвестного человека; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., An Anonymous Story, 1917:Она́ так и́скренно ве́рила, что я не челове́к, а не́что стоя́щее неизмери́мо ни́же её, что, подо́бно ри́мским матро́нам, кото́рые не стыди́лись купа́ться в прису́тствии рабо́в, при мне иногда́ ходи́ла в одно́й соро́чке.- Oná tak ískrenno vérila, što ja ne čelovék, a néčto stojáščeje neizmerímo níže jejó, što, podóbno rímskim matrónam, kotóryje ne stydílisʹ kupátʹsja v prisútstvii rabóv, pri mne inogdá xodíla v odnój soróčke.
- She so genuinely believed that I was hardly a human being, but something infinitely below her, that, like the Roman matrons who were not ashamed to bathe before their slaves, she sometimes went about in my presence in nothing but her chemise.
- matron
Declension