neo- pref.

     1. New; recent: Neolithic.
     2. New and different: neoimpressionism.
 

  ma•trix   (mtrks)
A situation or surrounding substance within which 
something else originates, develops,or is contained
[Middle English matrice, from Old French, from Late Latin 
mtrx, mtrc-, from Latin, breeding-animal, from mter, 
mtr-, mother.