English
matrescence
Matrescence comes from Latin mātrēscēns ‘to become a mother’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmātrēscēns‘to become a mother’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013matrescence
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmātrēscēns‘to become a mother’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013matrescence
Earliest quotation: 2013, Denis Walsh, Soo Downe: “Thomas writes of matrescence as spiritual formation drawing analogies…”
Every English word from Latin mātrēscēns
Today it means
noun The process of becoming (and coming to inhabit the role of) a mother.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mātrēscēns / matrescence