单词 | genetrix |
释义 | genetrixn. A female parent, a mother. Also figurative, esp. applied to a person's native country. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] mothereOE dame?c1225 merea1275 childbearera1382 genitricea1500 mammy1523 dama1547 mama1555 genetrix1561 mam1570 mum?1595 old lady1599 authoressc1603 mam1608 genitress1610 old woman1668 old girl1745 mummy1768 momma1810 madre1815 maw1826 ma1829 marm1835 mater1843 mom1846 mommy1846 maternal1867 motherkins1870 muvver1871 mumsy1876 mamacita1887 mutti1905 birth mother1906 duchess1909 amma1913 momsey1914 mums1915 moms1925 mata1945 baby-mother1966 mama1982 old dear1985 baby-mama1986 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. xiii. f. 86v It hath of long time ben receyued in common vse of all nations, that the mothers are called Genitrices, that is engendrers. 1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον 28 The roundelayes, and charming lullabies, That my indulgent genetrix did warble? 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Valerius Soranus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 366 Omnipotent Jupiter..the Progenitor and Genitrix, the both Father and Mother of those Gods. 1770 Compend. View Grounds Teutonick Philos. ii. 64 We should by degrees come to see..the eternal mother, the genetrix or bringer-forth of all things. 1831 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 13 Dec. Intemperance, the genetrix of crime..to which most vices owe their depraved origin. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. v. 44 Who else than she the genetrix of light, The mother of the morning? 1892 Mod. Rev. Nov. 140 The typical mother can neither be a slave nor a genetrix of slaves. 1952 Jrnl. Internat. Afr. Inst. 22 360 The..Female Cross..is the symbol..of the queen-mother as representing the genetrix God. 1993 J. L. Matory in J. Comaroff & J. L. Comaroff Modernity & its Malcontents iii. 76 The reproduction of the patrilineal house relies explicitly on the appropriation of the heads of its genetrices. 2001 C. Rody Daughter's Return ii. iv. 111 Caribbean and African intellectuals in 1930s Europe grounded their ideal of an authentic black culture in the figure of a new mother: Mother Africa, genetrix in a new myth of origin, dignity, and unity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1561 |
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