matriarca
Portuguese, noun/ma.tɾiˈaʁ.kɐ/
matriarca is spelled M-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 44,753rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matriarca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “matriarch (a female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mulher que é líder de sua família, clã, sociedade, tribo ,etc”.
What does matriarca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininematriarch (a female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mulher que é líder de sua família, clã, sociedade, tribo ,etc.
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of matriarca
- matriarcas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matriarca?
- Brazil /ma.tɾiˈaʁ.kɐ/
- Brazil [ma.tɾiˈah.kɐ]
- Brazil /maˈtɾjaʁ.kɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to matriarca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is matriarca in Portuguese?
matriarca appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).