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mater

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.”
  2. (anatomy) Either of the dura mater and pia mater of the brain.

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

CzechEdit

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ma.te/
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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)
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 – tu – nous vous –
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 only usable with 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

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LatinEdit

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

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

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

Descendants
  • Ido: matro
  • Interlingua: matre
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Ladin: mère
  • Lombard: mader
  • Middle English: matere
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Novial: matra
  • Old Franco-Provençal: *mādre, māðre
  • Old French: medre, mere

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

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

mater

  1. Alternative form of matere

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

From Proto-Slavic *mati.

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

Further readingEdit

  • mater in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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