Etymology

mater lectionis

Today it means: A consonant letter used to represent a vowel sound in Semitic scripts. Full definition →

New Latin māter lēctiōnis ← he-med אֵם קְרִיאָה
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  1. he-med · derived fromאֵם קְרִיאָה
  2. New Latin · borrowed frommāter lēctiōnis
  3. English todaymater lectionis

Borrowed from New Latin māter lēctiōnis (literally “mother of reading”), calque of Medieval Hebrew אֵם קְרִיאָה (ʾēm qərîʾā).

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