Hyphenation
du·ra ma·terTurkish pronunciation
dûrı meytırPronunciation
/ˈdo͝orə ˈmātər/ /ˈdʊrə ˈmeɪtɜr/
Etymology
(noun.) 1798. First attested circa 1400, from Medieval Latin dura mater cerebri hard mother of the brain, a loan translation of Arabic umm al-dimagh as-safigah, literally thick mother of the brain, matrix of the brain.