marraine
French
noun
Definitions
- godmother (woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French marrene inherited from Latin māter (mother, in the sense of 'source').
Origin
Latin
māter
Gloss
mother, in the sense of 'source'
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
母
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- madrina English
- mater English
- matrimony English
- matronymic English
- *matrasta Latin
- *matrastra Latin
- *matrīna Latin
- commater, commātrem, commāter Latin
- commātrem Latin
- mater Latin
- matercula Latin
- materia Latin
- maternus Latin
- matralis Latin
- matresco Latin
- matricida Latin
- matricidium Latin
- matrimonium Latin
- māter Latin
- māternus Latin
- madrina Italian
- mate Italian
- matrigna Italian
- marrainage French
- marrainer French
- amadrinar Spanish, Castilian
- madre Spanish, Castilian
- madrina Spanish, Castilian
- -άρχης Ancient Greek
- *méh₂tēr Proto-Indo-European
- madrinha Portuguese
- matere Middle English
- mater Czech
- marrene Old French
- matriarche Old French
- medre Old French
- mârraine Norman
- madrỹa Old Portuguese
- mãy Old Portuguese
- mairina Occitan
- *mātēr Proto-Italic
- madrina Asturian
- mader Lombard