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materno

materno is a Latin form of maternus, meaning “mother's, maternal”. It is the dative singular neuter adjective.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro P. Sulla 25: … teris patriciis me et vos peregrinos videri oporteret, a Torquato tamen hoc vitium sileretur; est enim ipse a materno genere municipalis, honestissimi ac nobilissimi generis, sed tamen Asculani. aut igitur doceat Picentis solos …

Martial, Epigrammata 1.96.2: Nostro rogamus pauca verba Materno

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.