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Reader Question
Barbara Orris asks: "The word avuncular means 'of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an uncle.' Is there a word that means pertaining to or characteristic of an aunt?"
A handful of adjectives related to aunts have been recorded in English, though none are as common as the male counterpart, avuncular. The most straightforward is auntly, modeled after motherly, fatherly, sisterly and brotherly, with scattered usage back to the 1830s. (Uncly is even rarer.) Auntish and auntlike are other alternatives that append aunt with familiar suffixes.

If we take the Latinate approach à la avuncular, then the Oxford English Dictionary provides materteral, attested since 1823 in humorous use, meaning "characteristic or typical of an aunt." Classics majors would be quick to point out that the Latin roots of these words only cover maternal siblings: avunculus means "mother's brother" and matertera means "mother's sister." On the paternal side, there's patruus for "father's brother" and amita for "father's sister."


avuncular〔əvŋkjulər〕
adj.

1. Of or having to do with an uncle.
2. Regarded as characteristic of an uncle, especially in benevolence or tolerance.

[From Latin avunculus, maternal uncle.]

benevolence

Pronunciation: /bɪˈnɛv(ə)l(ə)ns, bɪˈnɛvəl(ə)ns, bɪˈnɛvələns/

Translate benevolence | into Italian

noun

[mass noun]

the quality of being well meaning; kindness.

benevolence

• [bənévələns]

[名][U]

1 慈善の心, 博愛心, 慈悲心；[C]善行；慈善.

2 《英国史》徳税：封建時代に国王が賦課した貢納金.


━━ a. おじの（ような）.


Washington Benevolent Society


benevolent

• [bənévələnt]

[形]

1 慈善の心に富んだ, 情け深い（⇔malevolent）；親切な((to, toward ...))；((限定))慈善のための

a benevolent fund
慈善基金.

2 好意的な, やさしい, 善意ある

benevolent attention
好意的配慮.

［ラテン語benevolent「善意の」. △VOLUNTARY］

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