Usage of "materfamilias"

Portuguese

A female head of a family or tribe.

matriarch

Usage of materfamilias in English

There is nothing to tell the materfamilias; and yet, at her first attempt, she fills the honey-pot to the requisite depth. 
 The Mason-Bees 

Materfamilias came from Memphis quality, darling, and didn't let you forget it. 
 Bag of Bones 

B. T.' and 'Materfamilias' will have all the real influence which their letters-excellentletters both of them-certainlydeserve. 
 Miscellanies 

"The first time we ever travelled second-class in our lives," murmured Materfamilias. 
 Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 

"Evidently one of their heroes, my dear," said Paterfamilias to Materfamilias. 
 The Head of Kay's 

Ponder the Fate that made me Spouse, Muse Materfamilias, and Household Divinity, instead of a field marshal under Frederick the Great. 
 The new yorker 

Frequent collocations

tell the materfamilias

Translations for materfamilias

Portuguese

matriarca

Materfamilias through the time

Interface language

Meanings of materfamilias in English