madrina

Borrowed from Spanish madrina.

madrina (plural madrinas)

1. An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.

• madrina in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Arminda, Miranda

From Vulgar Latin *matrīna, from Latin mater. Compare French marraine, Italian madrina, Occitan mairina, Portuguese madrinha, Spanish madrina.

• IPA^(key): [maˈðɾina]

madrina (plural madrines)

1. godmother

From madre or from a Vulgar Latin root *matrīna, from Latin mater. Compare French marraine, Occitan mairina, Portuguese madrinha, Spanish madrina.

madrina f (plural madrine)

1. godmother
2. sponsor
3. (nautical) woman who ceremonially names and launches a ship

• madre

• comare
• padrino

• andarmi, mandria, miranda, rimanda

From a Vulgar Latin root *matrīna, from Latin mater. Compare French marraine, Italian madrina, Occitan mairina, Portuguese madrinha.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdɾina/, [maˈðɾina]
• Rhymes: -ina

madrina f (plural madrinas)

1. godmother

• amadrinar
• hada madrina

• madre
• padrino

• comadre
• ahijado

• “madrina” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.