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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• mother:
    1. I. Lit.: māter, tris: pass. Dimin. matercula (little or poor m.), Cic. Fl. 36, fin.: Hor. Belonging to a m., mother's, maternus: the name of m., nomen maternum, Cic. Clu. 5, 12: Ter. (Both the subs. and adj. may be used as well with relation to inferior animals: matrix, īcis, is a she-animal kept for breeding: cf. Varr. 2, 5, med., habeo tauros ... ad matrices septuaginta duo, two bulls to seventy breeding cows: Col.) Phr.: to become a m., parĕre (v. to bring forth): m.'s brother (maternal uncle), avunculus (v. uncle): brothers born of the same m., fratres uterini, Just. Cod. 5, 61, 21: children whose m.s are still living, liberi matrimi, Liv. 37, 3, med. (so, patrimi, whose fathers are living, ib.): to suck in error with one's m.'s milk, cum lacte nutricis errorem sugere, Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 2.
    2. II. Fig.: producer, originator:
      1. 1. māter: Philosophy the m. of all good arts, m. omnium bonarum artium philosophia, Cic. Leg. 1, 22, 58: Hor.
      2. 2. părens, ntis, c.: Join: parens educatrixque [sapientia], Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 62; procreatrix et quasi parens, id. Or. 1, 3, 9.
      3. 3. gĕnĕtrix, īcis: Egypt m. of vices, Aegyptus g. vitiorum, Plin. 26, 1, 3: Just.
      4. 4. prōcreātrix, īcis: Cic. (v. supr. 2).
      5. 5. expr. by părio, gigno: cf. Cic. Am. 6, 20, virtus amicitiam et gignit et continet, virtue is both the m. and the maintainer of friendship: v. to beget.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• MOTHER
  • PROP., mater: matrix (only of animals; ☞ Procreatrix for mater does not occur in the proper sense, nor is genitrix so used in classic prone; hence both must be avoided): to become a mother, partum edere; by anyone, gravidum fieri ex or de aliquo; matrem fieri de aliquo (Ov., Met., 3, 270): to be a mother, peperisse: to be the mother of three children, trium liberorum matrem esse; tres liberos peperisse: children of one mother, liberi eadem matre nati; liberi uterini (Cod. Just., 5, 61, 2): that has a mother still alive, matrimus: on the mother’s side, maternus: that has lost his mother, matre orbus.
  • Figuratively, producer, nourisher, mater (general term); parens, procreatrix, genitrix (parens to be used when the substantive is masculine in Latin): the earth is the common mother of all mortals, terra est communis mater omnium mortalium: philosophy is the mother of all sciences, procreatrix quaedam et quasi parens omnium artium est philosophia: frugality is the mother of virtues, genitrix virtutum frugalitas: honor is the mother (promoter) of the arts, honos alit artes.