mater
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere.[1] Doublet of mother.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtə/[1]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/[1], /ˈmɑtɚ/[1]
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
NounEdit
mater (plural maters or matres)
- (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.”
- (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mater (plural maters)
Etymology 3Edit
See 'mater.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mater (plural maters)
- 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.
- 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover (→ISBN), page 28:
ReferencesEdit
AnagramsEdit
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mater f
- title of an abbess
See alsoEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- mater in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- mater in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- mater in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
mater
- (transitive) to checkmate
- (figuratively, transitive) to suppress, quell (a revolution, person, insurrection)
- 1997, “L'Empire du côté obscur”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:
- Adapter ma technique à la manière du caméléon / Sans pitié pour mater la rébellion
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of mater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | matant /ma.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | maté /ma.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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 historic2 | 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 | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mate /mat/ |
mates /mat/ |
mate /mat/ |
mations /ma.tjɔ̃/ |
matiez /ma.tje/ |
matent /mat/ |
| imperfect2 | matasse /ma.tas/ |
matasses /ma.tas/ |
matât /ma.ta/ |
matassions /ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
matassiez /ma.ta.sje/ |
matassent /ma.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mate /mat/ |
— | matons /ma.tɔ̃/ |
matez /ma.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Etymology 2Edit
Uncertain, perhaps from Spanish mata (“bush”).[1]
VerbEdit
mater
- (slang, transitive) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
- 1997, “Demain, c’est loin”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:
- Mater les photos, majeur aujourd'hui, poto / Pas mal d'amis se sont déjà tués en moto
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of mater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | matant /ma.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | maté /ma.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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 historic2 | 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 | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mate /mat/ |
mates /mat/ |
mate /mat/ |
mations /ma.tjɔ̃/ |
matiez /ma.tje/ |
matent /mat/ |
| imperfect2 | matasse /ma.tas/ |
matasses /ma.tas/ |
matât /ma.ta/ |
matassions /ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
matassiez /ma.ta.sje/ |
matassent /ma.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mate /mat/ |
— | matons /ma.tɔ̃/ |
matez /ma.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further readingEdit
- “mater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “mater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old English mōdor (English mother).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.ter/, [ˈmäːt̪ɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.ter/, [ˈmäːt̪er]
Audio (Classical) (file) - Hyphenation: ma‧ter
NounEdit
māter f (genitive mātris); third declension
- mother (female parent)
- Nē, māter; suam.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- mother (source, origin)
- matron of a house
- honorific title
- woman
- nurse
- motherland
- maternity, motherhood
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | māter | mātrēs |
| Genitive | mātris | mātrum |
| Dative | mātrī | mātribus |
| Accusative | mātrem | mātrēs |
| Ablative | mātre | mātribus |
| Vocative | māter | mātrēs |
SynonymsEdit
- (mother): genetrīx
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Ladin: mère
- Lombard: mader
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: mai
- Novial: matra
- Old Franco-Provençal: *mādre, māðre
- Franco-Provençal: mâre
- Old French: mere, medre
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan:
- Old Portuguese: madre
- Old Portuguese: mãy
- Old Spanish: madre
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: mari
- Venetian: mare
- → English: mater
- → Ido: matro
- → Esperanto: matro
- → Interlingua: matre
- → Middle English: matere
- English: mater
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “mater”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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
- son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
mater (plural maters)
- Alternative form of matere
- 1470–1483 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, verso, lines 15–18:
- Than ſpake ẜ Gawayne And ſeyde brothir · ẜ Aggravayne I pray you and charge you meve no ſuch · maters no more a fore me fro wyte you well I woll nat be of youre counceyle //
- Then spoke Sir Gawain, and said, “Brother, Sir Agrivain, I pray you and charge you move not such matters any more before me, for be ye assured I will not be of your counsel.”
NormanEdit
VerbEdit
mater
- to kill
Norwegian BokmålEdit
VerbEdit
mater
Serbo-CroatianEdit
NounEdit
mater
- accusative singular of mati
- (by extension, regional) Alternative form of mati
AnagramsEdit
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *mati.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, genitive plural materí, declension pattern of dlaň)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of mater
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- mater in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk