Link Centre Dictionary

materfamilias

ma·ter·fa·milias

uncommon

noun

1.

a female head of a family or tribe

Synonyms

Origin

From Latin māter familiās (“mother of the household”).

Related words

Broader terms

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.