mother-in-law · stepmother · a retired politician (male or female) who tries to keep influencing their successors through public or behind-the-scenes interventions
çekim: çoğul belles-mères
eş: belle-doche, marâtre, Marie-Louise
zıt: parâtre
köken: Inherited from Middle French belle-mere, belle-mère. By surface analysis, belle- + mère.
eş: seconda madre, madre avversa, madre crudele, madre ostile, madre perfida, madre snaturata
zıt: patrigno
köken: From Late Latin mātrīnea, from māter (“mother”) + -īneus (“relative suffix”). Compare Late Latin mātrīna (“stepmother, godmother”); alternatively from Late Latin mātrigna, after the model of prīvignus (“stepson”).
stepmother (wife of one's biological father, not one's biological mother) · an evil woman
çekim: çoğul madrastas
zıt: mãe, santa
köken: From Late Latin mātrastra (“stepmother”), from Latin māter (“mother”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Compare Galician madrasta, Spanish madrastra.