madre

From Latin māter, mātre (“mother, matron”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadɾe/,
• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Hyphenation: ma‧dre

madre f (plural madres)

1. mother

   Synonym: ma

Borrowed from Spanish madre, from Latin mātre, singular ablative of māter, matris (“mother, matron”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadɾe/
• Hyphenation: mad‧re

madre (Badlit spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. a nun

   Synonyms: abadesa, mongha

Inherited from Spanish madre.

madre

1. nun

From Old French madre, developed (with dr < sdr < sr as e.g. in coudre) from earlier *mas(d)re, from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz (“veined, knobby or singed wood”). Cognate with German Maser, Old Norse mǫsurr.

• IPA^(key): /madʁ/

madre m (uncountable)

1. veined wood

• madré

• “madre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadɾe/
• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Hyphenation: ma‧dre

madre f (plural madres)

1. (formal) mother

   Synonym: nai

2. riverbed
3. kernel of a cable
4. (fishing) main line (in longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached)

   Synonym: estrallo

5. tartar

   Synonym: sarro

6. (also in the plural) womb; placenta

   Synonym: empreñadeira

7. (games) base, safe place, haven
8. (Catholicism, formal) nun

• “madre”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “madre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “madre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “madre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From the older form matre, from Latin mātrem, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.dre/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -adre
• Hyphenation: mà‧dre

madre f (plural madri)

1. mother

madre (invariable)

1. (relational) mother

   lavoratrice madre ― working mother (literally, “mother worker”)

2. that constitutes the origin of subsequent facts and phenomena

   causa madre ― root cause

   • 2020 October 1, Massimo Basile, “Misogini, anti-immigrati, suprematisti: chi sono i Proud Boys sdoganati da Trump [Misogynists, suprematists: who are the Proud Boys legitimated by Trump]”, in la Repubblica‎:

     Si può far parte a vari livelli, da urlare in pubblico slogan pro occidente a farsi tatuare il nome Proud Boys fino alla prova madre: partecipare a scontri.

     You can be a part of it at various levels, from yelling pro-Western slogans in public to tattooing the name Proud Boys all the way to the principal test: participating in clashes.

• (family members) famiglia; cugino, figlio, figlia, fratello, madre, marito, moglie, nipote, nonna, nonno, padre, sorella, zia, zio ^{(Category: it:Family)}
• genitore
• mamma
• padre

• madre in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• madre in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

• -derma, derma, derma-, merda

madre f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מאדרי)

1. mother

   Coordinate term: padre (פאדרי)

From Latin mātrem, accusative singular of māter (“mother, matron”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadɾe/

madre f (plural madres)

1. mother
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 4 (facsimile):

     A madre do que liurou / dos Leões Daniel / Eſſa do fogo Guardou / un Menỹo Dirrael.

     The Mother of Him who delivered Daniel from the lions saved a little boy of the tribe of Israel from the fire.

   Synonym: mãy

   Coordinate terms: pay, padre

2. riverbed
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 183:

     et nõ colle as agoas nẽ as torna aa madre ata quea noyte nõ aja as oras ygoães cõ odia. Et em esta rrazõ sobre este lugar da fonte do Nylo achamos que ouverõ [hũus] dos auçiaos hũa créénça vãa: queo cresçer da fonte do Nylo donde el sal por las terras et rrega as herdades, diziam que aquel cresçer quelle [vyña] daquelas neves de Etiopia

     and doesn't take the waters nor return them to the riverbed till the night has its hours equal to that of the day. Because of this, about this place of the source of the Nile, we find that some of the old scholars had a vain belief: that the flooding of the Nile's source, where it springs from the earth and waters the fields, was due to the snows of Ethiopia

• Galician: madre
• Portuguese: madre

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “madre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “madre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”), from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate of mãe.

madre f (plural madres)

1. (Christianity) mother (nun)

   Madre superiora. ― Mother superior.

2. (anatomy) womb
3. mold

• “madre”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “madre”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “madre” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “madre”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “madre”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “madre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Inherited from Latin mātrem (“mother, matron”), from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare English matron.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmadɾe/

• Audio (Bolivia):

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• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Syllabification: ma‧dre

madre f (plural madres)

1. mother

   Synonym: mamá

2. (figuratively) mother (source or origin)

   Synonyms: causa, raíz, origen

3. (Christianity) mother (nun)
4. (hydrology) riverbed

   Synonyms: álveo, cauce, lecho

5. dregs (of a drink)
6. (Mexico, colloquial, vulgar, slang) thing

• padre

• → Tagalog: madre

• “madre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish madre, from Latin mātrem, singular accusative of māter (“mother, matron”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmadɾe/
• Rhymes: -adɾe
• Syllabification: ma‧dre

madre (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. (Catholicism) nun

   Synonyms: relihiyosa, sister

2. (geology) mother lode

   Synonym: inang-bato

3. (carpentry, in general) frame; spindle; principal piece, log, or beam

   Synonyms: hamba, balangkas

4. (chemistry) principal chemical vehicle (in a solution)
5. (archaic, rare) mother

   Synonyms: ina, nanay, inay, inang, mama

• “madre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018