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matertera

matertera · f

a mother's sister, an aunt

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Where it lives

Parentalia 3 · 11.54/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mātertĕra — Lewis & Short

mātertĕra, ae, f.for materitera, mater and an obsol. fem. noun found in neutr. i-terum; cf. al-tera, a second mother,

I a mother's sister, an aunt by the mother's side: amita est patris soror: matertera est matris soror, Dig. 38, 10, 10, § 4; cf. ib. § 5: mea matertera (anulum gestitavit), Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 4; Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104; id. de Or. 2, 1, 2; Ov. M. 3, 312: materteram uxorem ducere non licet, Gai. Inst. 1, 62; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 6, 2, 2.—

II Esp.

A Magna, i. e. aviae soror, Dig. 38, 10, 1, § 15; cf.: matertera patris et matris, mihi magna matertera est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 136 Müll. —

B Major, i. e. soror proaviae, Dig. 38, 10, 1, § 16.—

C Maxima, i. e. abaviae soror, Dig. 38, 10, 1, § 17.

2. mätertera — Walde–Hofmann

mätertera, -ae f. „Tante — Mutters Schwester" (opp. amita — „Vaters Schwester“; seit Plt. (rom. nur amita und thia aus gr. 9cíà, Wartburg I 89]; ab-, ad-, prömätertera Juristen): aus *mätro-terä 4* 52 matia — mattici. (Skutsch KL. Schr. 251, Sommer IF. 11, 16. 39; nicht *matr-terà mit Burger Et. 19), Komparativbildung zu mäter „eine, die mehr Mutter ist als etwas anderes, eine zweite Mutter“; vgl. zur Bldg. ai. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. mätertera, p. 957]

In the wild

matertera Persius, Saturae 2.31
matertera Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.417
matertera Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.313
matertera Ovid, Fasti 6.809
matertera Statius, Silvae 5.1.25
matertera Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.8.p4

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. matertera (scan p. 714; entry #11854).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. mätertera (scan pp. 957-959; entry #1723). Root candidates: *mater-.

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