dura mater

English

Etymology

First attested c. 1400, borrowing from Medieval Latin dūra māter (literally “firm, strict mother”), ellipsis of dūra māter cerebrī (literally “hard mother of the brain”), calque of Arabic أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة (ʔumm al-ddimāḡ aṣ-ṣafīqa, literally “thick mother of the brain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdjʊə.ɹə ˈmeɪ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə ˌmeɪ.tɚ/, /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə ˌmɑt.ɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

dura mater (plural durae matres or dura maters) (abbreviated dura)

1. (anatomy) The tough and inflexible outermost of the three layers of the meninges, enveloping the brain and spinal cord.

   Coordinate terms: arachnoid, pia mater

   • 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books; Icon Books, →ISBN, page 53:

     Hmm, false membranes are adhering to the arachnoidian layer of the dura mater. I’m directing my gaze into a world of constant visibility. Where does it hurt?

Translations

outermost layer of the meninges

• Arabic: الأم الجافية (al-umm al-jāfiya)
• Catalan: duramàter f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬腦膜／硬脑膜 (yìngnǎomó); 硬脊膜 (yìngjǐmó), 硬膜 (yìngmó)

• Dutch: hard hersenvlies n, dura mater (nl) f
• Finnish: kovakalvo (fi)
• French: dure-mère (fr)
• German: Dura mater (de)
• Ido: duramatro (io)
• Italian: dura madre (it) f, duramadre f, pachimeninge f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: perdeya req f

• Polish: opona twarda f
• Portuguese: dura-máter f
• Romanian: dura mater (ro) f
• Russian: твёрдая мозговая оболочка f (tvjórdaja mozgovaja oboločka)
• Serbo-Croatian: tvrda moždana ovojnica f
• Spanish: duramadre (es) f
• Swedish: hårda hjärnhinnan c
• Vietnamese: màng cứng

References

• “dura mater”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dura mater”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• armatured

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dura mater.

Noun

dura mater f (uncountable)

1. dura mater

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