maternal

英 [mə'tɜːn(ə)l] 美[mə'tɝnl]

英英释义实用场景例句

近义词motherly

反义词

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副词: maternally;

maternal 母亲的

来自拉丁语maturnus,母亲的，来自mater,母亲，词源同mother.

maternal: maternal: [15] Maternal and maternity [17] are the central English representatives of the Romance-language branch of the great Indo- European ‘mother’ word-family. Both go back to Latin māter ‘mother’ (source of French mère and Italian and Spanish madre), whose derived adjective māternus reached English via Old French maternel. Other English words that come ultimately from māter include material and matter, matrix [16] (from which also come madrigal and matriculate [16], etymologically ‘enter on a matrix or list’), and matrimony [14].
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maternal (adj.): late 15c., from Old French maternel (14c.), from Vulgar Latin *maternalis, from Latin maternus "maternal, of a mother," from mater "mother" (see mother (n.1)).

1. I didn't have as strong a maternal instinct as some other mothers.: 我不像别的母亲那样有那么强烈的母性本能。