Noun: madre
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | madre |
| Plural f | madres |
Sample Sentences
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A madre do que liurou / dos Leões Daniel / Eſſa do fogo Guardou / un Menỹo Dirrael. (The Mother of Him who delivered Daniel from the lions saved a little boy of the tribe of Israel from the fire.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 4 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/059.gif] facsimile])]
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et nõ colle as agoas nẽ as torna aa madre ata quea noyte nõ aja as oras ygoães cõ odia. Et em esta rrazõ sobre este lugar da fonte do Nylo achamos que ouverõ [hũus] dos auçiaos hũa créénça vãa: queo cresçer da fonte do Nylo donde el sal por las terras et rrega as herdades, diziam que aquel cresçer quelle [vyña] daquelas neves de Etiopia (and [the Nile] doesn't take the waters nor return them to the riverbed till the night has its hours equal to that of the day. Because of this, about this place of the source of the Nile, we find that some of the old scholars had a vain belief: that the flooding of the Nile's source, where it springs from the earth and waters the fields, was due to the snows of Ethiopia) [c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 183:]
Nouns inflected like madre
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin mātrem, accusative singular of māter (“mother, matron”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.
Verbs referencing "madre"
Galician Nouns
madre, Portuguese Nouns
madre.
Translations