Letter M

Materfamilias

The female head of the family; the mother figure.

Materfamilias is the Latin for mother of the household.

It is compounded from mater (mother) + familias, which comes from familia (household), from famulus (servant, slave).

The masculine counterpart is the paterfamilias

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