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adj
Synonym of materteral (“of or relating to, or in the manner of, an aunt”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, rare
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Synonyms: auntish, auntlike, auntyish, materteral
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Latin māterteralbor. Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English materterine Learned borrowing from Latin mātertera (“maternal aunt”), + from -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’ forming adjectives). Mātertera is derived from māter (“mother”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méh2tēr (“mother”)) + ‐tera (feminine form of ‐ter (suffix forming nouns).
