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Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mateɾniˈdade/
- Rhymes: -ade
- Hyphenation: ma‧ter‧ni‧da‧de
Noun
maternidade f (plural maternidades)
- motherhood
- maternity
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin māternitātem.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ma‧ter‧ni‧da‧de
Noun
maternidade f (plural maternidades)
- motherhood
- maternity
- maternity hospital (or department in a hospital)
Further reading
- “maternidade” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913