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語源

From 中期英語 stepmoder, from 古期英語 stēopmōdor, from Proto-Germanic *steupamōdēr (“stepmother”), corresponding to step- +‎ mother. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifmuur (“stepmother”), Dutch stiefmoeder (“stepmother”), German Low German Steevmoder (“stepmother”), German Stiefmutter (“stepmother”), Danish stedmor (“stepmother”), Swedish styvmor (“stepmother”), Icelandic stjúpmóðir (“stepmother”). Compare also West Frisian styfmem (“stepmother”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈstɛpmʌðə/
• ハイフネーション: step‧moth‧er

名詞

stepmother (plural stepmothers)

1. A woman who is a subsequent wife or partner of a person's parent, usually following the divorce or separation of their parents, or the death of one's biological mother.

   Synonym: (euphemistic) bonus mother

   Hypernym: stepparent

   Coordinate term: stepfather

   1. A person or thing likened to a stereotypical stepmother, having cold, cruel, or ungenerous qualities.
   2. (biology) An animal, typically a bird, who raises the offspring of another animal. [from 1567]
2. Synonym of co-mother (“the non-birth mother of a child in a lesbian couple”).
3. Clipping of stepmother's blessing.
4. (botany, rare) A viola, especially Viola tricolor, heartsease. [from 1828]
   • 1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115:

     The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idelness.

同意語

• mother-in-law (obsolete)
• stepdame (archaic)

Dialectal forms:

• stepma (chiefly Ireland, US regional)
• stepmam (chiefly Ireland, Northern England)
• stepmama (chiefly US regional)
• stepmamma (chiefly US regional)
• stepmom (chiefly US)
• stepmomma (chiefly US, informal)
• stepmommy (chiefly US, informal)
• stepmum (chiefly UK, Commonwealth)
• stepmummy (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, informal)

派生語

参照

• “stepmother, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2026.
• “stepmother”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

参考

• Category:English terms prefixed with step-
• ex-stepfather
• ex-stepparent
• stepbrother
• stepchild
• stepdaughter
• stepmother-in-law
• stepfamily
• stepfather
• stepparent
• stepsibling
• stepsister
• stepson