English
Matraville
From Matra + -ville, named after James Matra, a midshipman on Captain James Cook's voyage to Botany Bay in 1770.
Formed from Matra + -ville
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁treh₂
Sanskrit मात्रा ‘measure, small quantity’
English Matra
The story
From Matra + -ville, named after James Matra, a midshipman on Captain James Cook's voyage to Botany Bay in 1770.
Today it means
name A suburb of Sydney in the Randwick council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Matraville