madrina

Borrowed from Spanish madrina.

madrina (plural madrinas)

1. An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.

• “madrina”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Arminda, Miranda

From Early Medieval Latin mātrīna, from Latin mater (“mother”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈdɾina/ [maˈð̞ɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ma‧dri‧na

madrina (plural madrines)

1. godmother

From earlier *matrina, from Early Medieval Latin mātrīna, derived from Latin māter (“mother”). Compare Sicilian parrina.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdri.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: ma‧drì‧na

madrina f (plural madrine)

1. godmother
2. sponsor
3. (nautical) woman who ceremonially names and launches a ship

• madre

• comare
• padrino

• Arminda, andarmi, mandria, miranda, rimanda

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin mātrīna, from Latin māter (“mother”). Compare Portuguese madrinha.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdɾina/ [maˈð̞ɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ma‧dri‧na

madrina f (plural madrinas)

1. godmother
2. bell-mare
3. (Mexico) euphemistic form of madriza (“beating, bashing”)

• hada madrina (charactonym)

• “madrina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024