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stabat matres

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Sta⋅bat Ma⋅ter

[stah-baht mah-ter, stey-bat mey-ter]
–noun
1. (italics) a Latin hymn, composed in the 13th century, commemorating the sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the Cross.
2. a musical setting for this.

Origin:
lit., the mother was standing, the first words of the hymn
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Stabat Mater 
1867, from L. Stabat Mater (dolorosa) "Stood the Mother (full of sorrow)," opening words of a sequence composed 13c. by Jacobus de Benedictus.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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