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materfamilias

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ma⋅ter⋅fa⋅mil⋅i⋅as

  [mey-ter-fuh-mil-ee-uhs]
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–noun
the mother of a family.
Origin:
1750–60; < L; cf. paterfamilias
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ma·ter·fa·mil·i·as   (mā'tər-fə-mĭl'ē-əs)   
n.  A woman who is the head of a household or the mother of a family.

[Latin māterfamiliās : māter, mother; see mater + familiās, archaic genitive of familia, household; see family.]
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