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See also: mae,
Mae,
MAE,
Maè,
Māe,
mä,
mæ,
ma'e,
-mä,
мае, and має
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese mãy, hypocoristic form of madre, from Latin māter (“mother”).
Compare Galician mai, nai, Mirandese, Leonese, and Aragonese mai and Asturian ma.
Pronunciation
Noun
mãe f (plural mães)
- mother (female who gives birth to or parents a child)
- Synonyms: genetriz, genitora, mamã, (childish) mamãe, progenitora
- Coordinate term: pai
- one's mother
Mãe, a senhora viu meus óculos?- Mom, have you seen my glasses?
- (figurative) mother (source or origin)
A Ibéria é a mãe da Era do Descobrimento.- Iberia is the mother of the Age of Discovery.
- (relational, in compounds) mother, stem (whence others spawn, are generated, are copied or stem)
- nave-mãe ― mothership
- célula-mãe ― stem cell
- lees (sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages)
- Synonym: madre
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “mãe” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913