matriarca

From Latin māter, mātris (“mother”) +‎ -arca, on the model of patriarca.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.tɾiˈar.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ma.tɾiˈaɾ.ka]
• Rhymes: -aɾka

matriarca f (plural matriarques)

1. (anthropology) matriarch

• “matriarca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “matriarca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “matriarca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin māter, mātris (“mother”) +‎ -arca, on the model of patriarca.

• IPA^(key): /ma.triˈar.ka/
• Rhymes: -arka
• Hyphenation: ma‧tri‧àr‧ca

matriarca f (plural matriarche)

1. matriarch

• matriarca in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• matriarca in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• matriàrca in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• matrïarca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• rimarcata

matriarca f (plural matriarcas, masculine patriarca, masculine plural patriarcas)

1. matriarch

From Latin māter, mātris (“mother”) +‎ -arca, on the model of patriarca.

• Rhymes: -aʁkɐ, -aɾkɐ
• Hyphenation: ma‧tri‧ar‧ca

matriarca f (plural matriarcas)

1. matriarch (a female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group)

• “matriarca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “matriarca”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “matriarca” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “matriarca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “matriarca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “matriarca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin māter, mātris (“mother”) +‎ -arca, on the model of patriarca.

• IPA^(key): /maˈtɾjaɾka/ [maˈt̪ɾjaɾ.ka]
• Rhymes: -aɾka
• Syllabification: ma‧triar‧ca

matriarca f (plural matriarcas)

1. matriarch

• “matriarca”, 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