mater
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via late-Middle English matere.[1]
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.
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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.
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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.”
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Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mater (plural maters)
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 “mater, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision; March 2009)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “mater, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft entry; March 2001)
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mater
- to get the better of
- to checkmate
- (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/ |
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| past participle | maté /ma.te/ |
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| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | matai /ma.te/ |
matas /ma.ta/ |
mata /ma.ta/ |
matâmes /ma.tam/ |
matâtes /ma.tat/ |
matèrent /ma.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | materai /ma.t(ə).ʁe/ |
materas /ma.t(ə).ʁa/ |
matera /ma.t(ə).ʁa/ |
materons /ma.t(ə).ʁɔ̃/ |
materez /ma.t(ə).ʁe/ |
materont /ma.t(ə).ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | materais /ma.t(ə).ʁɛ/ |
materais /ma.t(ə).ʁɛ/ |
materait /ma.t(ə).ʁɛ/ |
materions /ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
materiez /ma.tə.ʁje/ |
materaient /ma.t(ə).ʁɛ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
AnagramsEdit
External linksEdit
- “mater” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
LatinEdit
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
- mother (female parent)
- mother (source, origin)
- matron of a house
- honorific title
- woman
- nurse
- motherland
InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | māter | mātrēs |
| genitive | mātris | mātrum |
| dative | mātrī | mātribus |
| accusative | mātrem | mātrēs |
| ablative | mātre | mātribus |
| vocative | māter | mātrēs |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Descendants
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- mater in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *mati; cognate with Latin māter and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).
NounEdit
mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, declension pattern of dlaň)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of mater
Derived termsEdit
External linksEdit
- mater in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk