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the English word matrix
derived from the Old French word matrice
derived from the Late Latin word matrix (womb, groundwork, mold; dam, female animal kept for breeding; parent tree)
derived from the Late Latin word mater (mother; mother, foster mother; lady)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root mater- (mother)

Note: [female animal kept for breeding] and needing the offspring to feed upon in an attempt at self sustainment. Matrix movie Although materially impossible none the less insatiation and self preservation drives the machine. (Matrix, maternal and material). The workings of which are masculine.

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matrix (n.) Look up matrix at Dictionary.com
late 14c., "uterus, womb," from Old French matrice "womb, uterus," from Latin matrix (genitive matricis) "pregnant animal," in Late Latin "womb," also "source, origin," from mater (genitive matris) "mother" (see mother (n.1)). Sense of "place or medium where something is developed" is first recorded 1550s; sense of "embedding or enclosing mass" first recorded 1640s. Logical sense of "array of possible combinations of truth-values" is attested from 1914. As a verb from 1951.

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