matro

Borrowed from Italian madre and Spanish madre, from Latin māter, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.tro/

matro (plural matri)

1. mother

Originally patro meant "parent", while the derivatives patrulo meant "father" and patrino meant "mother", but in later times this was changed so patro meant father, while adding genitoro and matro to mean "parent" and "mother".

• mama
• (diminutive) matreto
• (archaic) patrino

• genitoro (“parent”)
• (archaic) patro (“parent”)

• patro (“father”)
• papa (“father”)
• (diminutive) patreto
• (archaic) patrulo

• matrala (“maternal”)
• matreso (“motherhood, maternity”)
• matreto (“mommy”)
• stifa matro/stif-matro (“stepmother”)
• baptomatro (“godmother”)
• bomatro (“mother-in-law”)

• matr-o in Ido-English Dictionary by L. H. Dyer, 1924