Noun: mãe
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | mãe |
| Plural f | mães |
Sample Sentences
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Coordinate term: pai
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Mãe, a senhora viu meus óculos? (Mom, have you seen my glasses?)
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A Ibéria é a mãe da Era do Descobrimento. (Iberia is the mother of the Age of Discovery.)
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nave-mãe (mothership)
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célula-mãe (stem cell)
Nouns inflected like mãe
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese mãy, nasalization of earlier *mae < *made, child-speech forms of madre, from Latin mātrem, the accusative of māter (“mother”). Doublet of madre.
2. Compare pai (“father”), which underwent a similar phonetic reduction from its root (Latin pater), but was not nasalized.
3. Cognate with Galician mai, nai, Mirandese, Leonese, and Aragonese mai and Asturian ma. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
mãy', Galician Nouns '
mai', Asturian Nouns '
ma'.
Verbs referencing "mãe"
Galician Nouns
mai, Galician Nouns
nai.
Translations