maternal的词源

英文词源

maternal

maternal: [15] Maternal and maternity [17] are the central English representatives of the Romance-language branch of the great Indo- European ‘mother’ word-family. Both go back to Latin māter ‘mother’ (source of French mère and Italian and Spanish madre), whose derived adjective māternus reached English via Old French maternel. Other English words that come ultimately from māter include material and matter, matrix [16] (from which also come madrigal and matriculate [16], etymologically ‘enter on a matrix or list’), and matrimony [14].
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maternal (adj.)

late 15c., from Old French maternel (14c.), from Vulgar Latin *maternalis, from Latin maternus "maternal, of a mother," from mater "mother" (see mother (n.1)).

中文词源

maternal：母亲的

来自拉丁语maturnus,母亲的，来自mater,母亲，词源同mother.

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：maternal 词源，maternal 含义。

maternal：母亲的；似母亲的；母系的

词根词缀： -mater-母 + n + -al形容词词尾