Noun: dura-máter
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | dura-máter |
| Plural f | dura-máteres |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like dura-máter
bissetriz,
meretriz,
bisectriz,
palidez,
polidez,
diretriz,
eleitriz,
codorniz,
pinador,
nitidez,
micromatriz,
esqualidez,
liminar,
perfuratriz,
cupidez,
dura-máter,
perpendicular,
imperatriz,
pia-máter,
aboiz, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dūra māter [cerebrī] (literally “hard mother [of the brain]”), loan translation of Arabic أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة (ʔumm ad-dimāḡ aṣ-ṣafīqa, literally “thick mother of the brain, matrix of the brain”).
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