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Mater lectionis
“Mother of reading.”
Grammatical term
Translation
What does “Mater lectionis” mean?
Mater lectionis translates as “Mother of reading.”
A grammar term for a consonant letter used to mark a vowel in scripts such as Hebrew and Arabic.
Origin
The story behind it
The Latin phrase translates a Hebrew grammatical term and is used by scholars of Semitic languages.
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