matr-

variant of matri- before a vowel.

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Choreographed by Jasmine Hearn and featuring members of the Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation professional cohort, “We’ll Remember Your Spine, Matr” is a site-specific performance that considers the land coordinates of downtown’s Freeway Park.

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Strikes on Bani Matr, an outlying district of Sana, have killed and injured dozens of civilians in recent days, and more casualties were reported in Tuesday’s strikes.

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Matr�na at once smelt the liquor in her husband's breath.

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And when she saw that he was without his caftan, in nothing but the jacket, and that he was not bringing anything, but only keeping silent and crouching, something broke in Matr�na's heart.

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That enraged Matr�na even more: he had bought no fur coat, and the only caftan they had he had put on a naked fellow, and had even brought him along.

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When To Use

�� does matr- mean?

The combining form matr- is used like a prefix meaning “mother.” It is an extremely rare combining form.The form matr- comes from Latin ��ٱ��, meaning “mother.” The word matrix, which has various meanings, including "womb," comes from this same Latin root, as does matron, "a married woman."The “father” counterpart to matr- is patr-. Check out our Words That Use article for patr- to learn more.The Greek cognate of Latin ��ٱ�� is ��ḗtŧ��, also meaning “mother,” which is the source of words such as metropolis, a term that literally means “mother city.” Find out more at our entries for matrix, matron, and metropolis.�� are variants of matr-?Matr- is a rare variant of matri-, which loses its -i- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Another rare variant of matri- is matro-, as in matrocliny. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use articles for each of these forms.�� are some other forms that matri- may be commonly confused with?

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Not every word that begins with the exact letters matri- or matr-, like matrass or matriculate, is necessarily using the combining form matri- to denote “mother.” Learn why matriculate means “to enroll” at our entry for the word.

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