mãe
Portuguese
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editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese mãy, hypocoristic form of madre, from Latin māter (“mother”).
Compare Galician mai, nai, Mirandese, Leonese, and Aragonese mai and Asturian ma.
Pronunciation
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Noun
editmãe f (plural mães)
- mother (female who gives birth to or parents a child)
- one's mother
- Mãe, a senhora viu meus óculos?
- Mom, have you seen my glasses?
- (figurative) mother (source or origin)
- A Ibéria é a mãe da Era do Descobrimento.
- Iberia is the mother of the Age of Discovery.
- (relational, in compounds) mother, stem (whence others spawn, are generated, are copied or stem)
- nave-mãe ― mothership
- célula-mãe ― stem cell
- lees (sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages)
- Synonym: madre
Derived terms
edit- célula-mãe
- filho da mãe
- mãe de família
- mãe-de-santo
- mãezinha (diminutive)
- mãezona (augmentative)
- nave-mãe
- pátria-mãe
- tua mãe
Related terms
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editFurther reading
edit- “mãe” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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