matrona

Borrowed from Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”). Doublet of matron.

matrona (plural matronas)

1. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a wife of an honorable man.

• Maranto, Montara

From Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈtrɔ.na/, /maˈtro.na/
• Rhymes: -ɔna, -ona
• Hyphenation: ma‧trò‧na, ma‧tró‧na

matrona f (plural matrone)

1. matron

• matrona in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• matrona in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• matrona in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• matrona in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• matròna in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• matròna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• marnato, normata, tarmano, tramano

From an unattested *mātrō, -ōnis + -a, from māter (“mother, foremother”) + -ō ((colloquial) agent noun-forming suffix). Compare colōnus and avunculus. See also patrōnus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maːˈtroː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈt̪rɔː.na]

mātrōna f (genitive mātrōnae); first declension

1. married woman, wife or matron, especially of an honorable man

   Synonyms: coniūnx, uxor, mulier, nūpta

   Antonym: marītus

2. title of Juno

First-declension noun.

• “matrona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “matrona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "matrona", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• matrona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “matrona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “matrona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Learned borrowing from Latin mātrōna.

• IPA^(key): /maˈtrɔ.na/
• Rhymes: -ɔna
• Syllabification: ma‧tro‧na
• Homophone: Matrona

matrona f

1. (dated) matron (mature or elderly woman)
2. (Ancient Rome, historical) matrona (wife of an honorable man)

• matrona in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• matrona in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈtɾona/ [maˈt̪ɾo.na]
• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: ma‧tro‧na

matrona f (plural matronas, masculine matrón, masculine plural matrones)

1. matron
2. midwife

   Synonyms: comadrona, partera

• “matrona”, 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