materteral

形容词 adj.
/məˈtɜːtəɹl̩/    /məˈtɜɹtəɹ(ə)l/|[-ɾə-]

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to, or in the manner of, an aunt. humorous,rare
    — [A] venerable matron and her virgin sister, who had passed the great climacteric, […] exclaimed with maternal and materteral anxiety, that the legislature ought to prohibit such dangerous sports; since the unavoidable accidents, to which human life and limb are exposed, are quite sufficient without increasing the number of them by wantonness and temerity.

词形变化

more materteral comparative most materteral superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Latin māterteralbor.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.

Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.

Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English materteral
Learned borrowing from Latin mātertera (“maternal aunt”), + from -al (suffix forming adjectives). Mātertera is derived from māter (“mother”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”)) + ‑tera (feminine form of ‑ter (suffix forming nouns)).
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