See also: mateř, mâter, mäter, and måter

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mater (plural maters or matres)

  1. (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous)[1] Mother.
    Coordinate term: pater
  2. (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
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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)

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CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Derived from Latin māter.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mater f

  1. title of an abbess

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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

From mat (mate) +‎ -er.

VerbEdit

mater

  1. (transitive) to checkmate
  2. (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

Etymology 2Edit

Uncertain, perhaps from Spanish mata (bush).[1]

VerbEdit

mater

  1. (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

Further readingEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Etymology and history of “mater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

 
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māter et īnfāns suus (a mother and her baby)

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old English mōdor (English mother).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

māter f (genitive mātris); third declension

  1. mother (female parent)
    Nē, māter; suam.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. mother (source, origin)
  3. matron of a house
  4. honorific title
  5. woman
  6. nurse
  7. motherland
  8. 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

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DescendantsEdit

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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

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

mater (plural maters)

  1. 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

  1. to kill

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

mater

  1. present of mate

Serbo-CroatianEdit

NounEdit

mater

  1. accusative singular of mati
  2. (by extension, regional) Alternative form of mati

AnagramsEdit

SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mati.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. mother

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • mater in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English matter.

NounEdit

mater m (plural materion)

  1. matter, affair
    Synonyms: neges, busnes
  2. substance
    Synonyms: sylwedd, defnydd

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MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mater fater unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mater”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies