mãe.
mother (female who gives birth to or parents a child)
Meaning & usage
mother (female who gives birth to or parents a child)
one's mother
Mãe, a senhora viu meus óculos?
mother (source or origin)
A Ibéria é a mãe da Era do Descobrimento.
mother, stem (whence others spawn, are generated, are copied or stem)
nave-mãe
célula-mãe
lees (sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages)
synonym of pegador (“it”)
Where this word comes from
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. Compare pai (“father”), which underwent a similar phonetic reduction from its root (Latin pater), but was not nasalized. Cognate with Galician mai, nai, Mirandese, Leonese, and Aragonese mai and Asturian ma.
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