# matutinal
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French matutinal (modern French matutinal), and from its etymon Late Latin mātūtīnālis (“(adjective) belonging to the morning; of or pertaining to matins; (noun) morning hymn or psalm; book of lauds”), from Latin mātūtīnus (“of, occurring in, or pertaining to the early morning, matutine”) (from Mātūta (“Roman goddess of the dawn or morning”) (from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to mature, ripen; opportune, timely; good, great”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). The second sense (“active in the morning; waking up early”) is possibly modelled after French matinal (“relating to the morning, matinal”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /məˈtjuːtɪnl̩/, /-ˈt͡ʃuː-/, /ˌmætjʊˈtaɪnl̩/, /-ˈt͡ʃʊ-/
* (General American) IPA: /məˈt(j)utənl̩/, [-ɾə-], /ˈmæt͡ʃəˌtaɪn(ə)l/
* Rhymes: -aɪnəl
* Hyphenation: ma‧tut‧in‧al

### Adjective

matutinal (not comparable) (formal or literary)
* Of, occurring in, or relating to the morning, especially the early morning upon waking up.
    Synonyms: matinal, matitudinal, (chiefly US, rare) matutinary, matutine
** 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:Pen, putting on his hat, strode forth into the air, and almost over the body of the matutinal housemaid, who was rubbing the steps at the door.
** 1874, Henry James, "Professor Fargo" in The Galaxy 18(2) (August 1874): 233–253.
    [A] young lady was introduced who had come to request him to raise a ghost—a resolute young lady, with several ringlets and a huge ancestral umbrella, whose matutinal appetite for the supernatural had not been quenched by the raw autumnal storm.
** 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:'Top 'o the mornin' to ye!' he called to Flory in a hearty matutinal voice, putting on an Irish accent.
* Active in the morning; waking up early.

#### Hypernyms

* crepuscular

#### Coordinate terms

* diurnal
* nocturnal
* vespertine

#### Translations
### References

* 1 2 “matutinal, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2022.
* ↑ “matutinal, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* matutinal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “matutinal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
* “matutinal, adj.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

* Atlantium

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French matutinal, from its etymon Late Latin mātūtīnālis (“(adjective) belonging to the morning; of or pertaining to matins; (noun) morning hymn or psalm; book of lauds”), from Latin mātūtīnus (“of, occurring in, or pertaining to the early morning, matutine”) (from Mātūta (“Roman goddess of the dawn or morning”) (from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“to mature, ripen; opportune, timely; good, great”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ty.ti.nal/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

matutinal (feminine matutinale, masculine plural matutinaux, feminine plural matutinales)
* (literary) matutinal

#### Related terms

* matin m
* matinée f

### References

* ↑ “matutinal, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2022.
* ↑ “matutinal, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* “matutinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.