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matrinus

matrinus [LLgl.: maternal uncle] 1 (as adj.) of a mother, maternal. et pirus, huicque dedit matrina angustia nomen Hanv. IV 48. 2 (as sb. f.): a stepmother. b godmother. a 1080 si quis ‥ vel cum ~a, vel cummatre, vel filiola coierit, similiter (Conc. Illebonae) Ord. Vit. V 5 p. 321.  b c1250 ~a, marreine Teaching Latin I 46; godmodyr, ~a PP; 1559 sub poena excommunicationis majoris tam in patrem quam in matrem ‥ et patrinos, ac ~as Conc. Scot. II 175.

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