Etymology

madrina

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Today it means: An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. Full definition →

Spanish madrina ← Early Medieval Latin mātrīna ← Latin īna
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*méh₂tēr
  2. Proto-Italic*mātēr
  3. Latinmātr
  4. Latinīna
  5. Early Medieval Latinmātrīna
  6. Spanishmadrina
  7. English todaymadrina

Borrowed from Spanish madrina.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.