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mater

See also: mäter

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mater (plural maters or matres)

  1. (UK 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.

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)

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

mater

  1. to make rigid
  2. 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
past participle maté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present mate mates mate matons matez matent
imperfect matais matais matait mations matiez mataient
past historic1 matai matas mata matâmes matâtes matèrent
future materai materas matera materons materez materont
conditional materais materais materait materions materiez materaient
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 mates mate mations matiez matent
imperfect1 matasse matasses matât matassions matassiez matassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— mate — matons matez —
1literary tenses

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LatinEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Proto-Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (mat’)), 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.

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

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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; cognate with Latin mater and Sanskrit मातृ (mātR)

NounEdit

mater f

  1. mother

DeclensionEdit

irregular declension
Singular Plural
nominative mater matere
genitive matere materi
dative materi materiam
accusative mater matere
vocative mater matere
locative materi materiach
instrumental materou materami

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