matronatus

From mātrōna (“married woman, matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maː.troːˈnaː.tus/, [mäːt̪roːˈnäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.troˈna.tus/, [mät̪roˈnäːt̪us]

mātrōnātus m (genitive mātrōnātūs); fourth declension

1. The dress of a matron or lady of rank.

Fourth-declension noun.

• “matronatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• matronatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• matronatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.