Madeira
See also: madeira
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From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.
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Madeira
- An island in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.
- Hypernym: Macaronesia
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island and autonomous region
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Madeira (countable and uncountable, plural Madeiras)
- A type of fortified wine produced on that island.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 280:
- Add to this, Madeira which had twice ripened beneath eastern suns—once in the grape, and once in the wood; and Port whose filmy robe of cobweb had, as old Adrian boasted, outlasted many a silken dress.
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wine
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Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”). Doublet of matèria.
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Madeira f
- Madeira (an archipelago and autonomous region of Portugal, located in Atlantic Ocean)
- Hypernym: Macaronèsia
- Madeira (an island in Madeira)
- Hypernym: arxipèlag de Madeira
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Madeira n (proper noun, strong, genitive Madeiras)
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
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From Portuguese madeira (“wood”).
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Madeira
- Madeira (island and autonomous region of Portugal)
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From Portuguese madeira (“wood”).
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Madeira
- Madeira (as above)
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From madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia (“stuff, timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Formal cognates include Spanish madera.
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Madeira f
- Madeira (an archipelago and autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic)
- Synonym: Região Autónoma da Madeira
- Madeira (the largest island of the Madeira Archipelago)
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Madeira m (plural Madeiras)
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Madèira f (Cyrillic spelling Мадѐира)