The story
- Latin · borrowed fromstabat mater“the mother was standing”
- English todaystabat mater
Borrowed from Latin stabat mater (“the mother was standing”) (the first words of the hymn).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
stabat mater
Today it means: A hymn, sung in Latin, telling of the sorrow of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ; the music for this hymn. Full definition →
Latin stabat mater