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mater

See also: mâter, mäter, and måter

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere.[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mater (plural maters or matres)

  1. (Britain slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous)[1] Mother.
    • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, ‎A Damsel in Distress‎, page 100:
      Their maters are all pals of my mater, and I don’t want to get them into trouble for aiding and abetting my little show, if you understand what I mean.
    • 1997, Colleen McCullough, Caesar’s Women‎, page 17:
      “Mater, you look well.” / “I am well. And you,” she said in that dryly prosaic deep voice of hers, “look healed.”

Etymology 2Edit

mate +‎ -er [2]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mater (plural maters)

  1. (biology)[2] Someone or something that mates.

Etymology 3Edit

See 'mater.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mater (plural maters)

  1. Alternative form of 'mater (“tomato”)
    • 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover (→ISBN), page 28:
      "A mater sandwich would be better." Trixie said, "but I'll take it if that's all you got." As if we were woefully deprived of food. So Trixie had a tomato sandwich for lunch, carefully prepared by Lillian but for which she received no thanks.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 “mater, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision; March 2009)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “mater, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft entry; March 2001)

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ma.te/
  • Audio (Paris)
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VerbEdit

mater

  1. to get the better of
  2. to checkmate
  3. (slang) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)

ConjugationEdit

  Conjugation of mater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive mater avoir maté
gerund en matant en ayant maté
present participle matant
/ma.tɑ̃/
past participle maté
/ma.te/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses 		present mate
/mat/ 		mates
/mat/ 		mate
/mat/ 		matons
/ma.tɔ̃/ 		matez
/ma.te/ 		matent
/mat/
imperfect matais
/ma.tɛ/ 		matais
/ma.tɛ/ 		matait
/ma.tɛ/ 		mations
/ma.tjɔ̃/ 		matiez
/ma.tje/ 		mataient
/ma.tɛ/
past historic1 matai
/ma.te/ 		matas
/ma.ta/ 		mata
/ma.ta/ 		matâmes
/ma.tam/ 		matâtes
/ma.tat/ 		matèrent
/ma.tɛʁ/
future materai
/ma.tʁe/ 		materas
/ma.tʁa/ 		matera
/ma.tʁa/ 		materons
/ma.tʁɔ̃/ 		materez
/ma.tʁe/ 		materont
/ma.tʁɔ̃/
conditional materais
/ma.tʁɛ/ 		materais
/ma.tʁɛ/ 		materait
/ma.tʁɛ/ 		materions
/ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		materiez
/ma.tə.ʁje/ 		materaient
/ma.tʁɛ/
compound
tenses 		present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses 		present mate
/mat/ 		mates
/mat/ 		mate
/mat/ 		mations
/ma.tjɔ̃/ 		matiez
/ma.tje/ 		matent
/mat/
imperfect1 matasse
/ma.tas/ 		matasses
/ma.tas/ 		matât
/ma.ta/ 		matassions
/ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ 		matassiez
/ma.ta.sje/ 		matassent
/ma.tas/
compound
tenses 		past Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— mate
/mat/ 		— matons
/ma.tɔ̃/ 		matez
/ma.te/ 		—
1literary tenses

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Proto-Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (matʹ)), Persian مادر‎ (mâdar), Mycenaean Greek 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

māter f (genitive mātris); third declension

  1. mother (female parent)
  2. mother (source, origin)
  3. matron of a house
  4. honorific title
  5. woman
  6. nurse
  7. motherland

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative māter mātrēs
genitive mātris mātrum
dative mātrī mātribus
accusative mātrem mātrēs
ablative mātre mātribus
vocative māter mātrēs

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

Related termsEdit

Terms related to mater

DescendantsEdit

Descendants

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • mater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

mater

  1. present tense of mate

Serbo-CroatianEdit

NounEdit

mater

  1. accusative singular form of mati

AnagramsEdit

SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *mati; cognate with Latin māter and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, genitive plural materí, declension pattern of dlaň)

  1. mother

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mater
singular plural
nominative mater matere
genitive matere materí
dative materi materiam
accusative mater matere
locative materi materiach
instrumental materou materami

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from mater

Further readingEdit

  • mater in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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