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materna

materna is a Latin form of maternus, meaning “mother's, maternal”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 1.28: accipiat, cingens materna tempora myrto,

Martial, Epigrammata 6.39.5: Materna produnt capitibus suis furta.

All forms of maternus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.