mater lectionis
noun/ˈmeɪtə lɛktiˈəʊnɪs/UK/ˈmeɪtɚ lɛktiˈoʊnɪs/US
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin māter lēctiōnis (literally “mother of reading”), calque of Medieval Hebrew אֵם קְרִיאָה (ʾēm qərîʾā).
- derived from אֵם קְרִיאָה
- borrowed from māter lēctiōnis
Definitions
A consonant letter used to represent a vowel sound in Semitic scripts.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mater lectionis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA