# matrona
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”). Doublet of matron.

### Noun

matrona (plural matronas)
* (historical) In Ancient Rome, a wife of an honorable man.

### Anagrams

* Maranto, Montara

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtrɔ.na/, /maˈtro.na/
* Rhymes: -ɔna, -ona
* Hyphenation: ma‧trò‧na, ma‧tró‧na

### Noun

matrona f (plural matrone)
* matron

#### Derived terms

* matronessa

#### Related terms

* matronale

### Further reading

* matrona in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* matrona in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* matrona in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* matrona in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* matròna in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* matròna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* marnato, normata, tarmano, tramano

## Latin
### Etymology

From an unattested *mātrō, -ōnis + -a, from māter (“mother, foremother”) + -ō ((colloquial) agent noun-forming suffix). Compare colōnus and avunculus. See also patrōnus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /maːˈtroː.na/, [mäːˈt̪roːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /maˈtro.na/, [mäˈt̪rɔːnä]

### Noun

mātrōna f (genitive mātrōnae); first declension
* married woman, wife or matron, especially of an honorable man
    Synonyms: coniūnx, uxor, mulier, nūpta
    Antonym: marītus
* title of Juno

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* mātrōnālis
* mātrōnātus

#### Related terms

* māter
* mātercula
* māterfamiliās
* māternitās
* māternus
* mātertera
* mātrālis
* mātrēscō
* mātrīcālis
* mātricīda
* mātricīdium
* mātrīcula
* mātrīculārius
* mātrimōniālis
* mātrimōnium
* mātrimus
* mātrīx
* mātruēlis

#### Descendants

* Catalan: matrona
* English: matron, matrona
* French: matrone
* Italian: matrona
* Polish: matrona
* Portuguese: matrona
* Romanian: matroană
* Russian: матрона (matrona)
* Sicilian: matruna
* Spanish: matrona

### References

* “matrona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “matrona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* matrona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* matrona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “matrona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “matrona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mātrōna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtrɔ.na/
* Rhymes: -ɔna
* Syllabification: ma‧tro‧na
* Homophone: Matrona

### Noun

matrona f
* (dated) matron (mature or elderly woman)
* (Ancient Rome, historical) matrona (wife of an honorable man)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* matrona in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* matrona in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtɾona/ [maˈt̪ɾo.na]
* Rhymes: -ona
* Syllabification: ma‧tro‧na

### Noun

matrona f (plural matronas, masculine matrón, masculine plural matrones)
* matron
* midwife
    Synonyms: comadrona, partera

### Further reading

* “matrona”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10