materia

See also: matéria and matèria

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin materia. Cf. madera.

NounEdit

materia f (plural materies)

  1. subject (main topic)
  2. material world
  3. matter

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Internationalism, ultimately from Latin māteria.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑteriɑ/, [ˈmɑt̪e̞ˌriɑ]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Syllabification(key): ma‧te‧ri‧a

NounEdit

materia

  1. matter

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of materia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative materia materiat
genitive materian materioiden
materioitten
partitive materiaa materioita
illative materiaan materioihin
singular plural
nominative materia materiat
accusative nom. materia materiat
gen. materian
genitive materian materioiden
materioitten
materiainrare
partitive materiaa materioita
inessive materiassa materioissa
elative materiasta materioista
illative materiaan materioihin
adessive materialla materioilla
ablative materialta materioilta
allative materialle materioille
essive materiana materioina
translative materiaksi materioiksi
instructive materioin
abessive materiatta materioitta
comitative materioineen
Possessive forms of materia (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person materiani materiamme
2nd person materiasi materianne
3rd person materiansa

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ItalianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed (in this form) from Latin materia.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /maˈtɛ.rja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrja
  • Syllabification: ma‧tè‧ria

NounEdit

materia f (plural materie)

  1. matter, substance, material, stuff
  2. subject-matter, matter, subject, topic

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LadinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin materia.

NounEdit

materia f (plural materies)

  1. matter, material

LatinEdit

 
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Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Traditionally derived from māter (mother, at least in the sense of 'source') +‎ -ia, in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, cedar) and մայրի (mayri, forest). More recently, referred to Proto-Indo-European *dem-. Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, hylē), introduced by Cicero.[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

māteria f (genitive māteriae); first declension

  1. matter; material; component stuff; substance
    c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.31:
    Et vellem, herculēs, māteriam repperīrem aliquam quam deus tantus affluenter indueret.
    And, by Hercules, I would like to find [clothing] material that such a great god could wear in flowing folds.
  2. timber
    Synonym: lignum
  3. (figurative) source, origin

DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative māteria māteriae
Genitive māteriae māteriārum
Dative māteriae māteriīs
Accusative māteriam māteriās
Ablative māteriā māteriīs
Vocative māteria māteriae

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ReferencesEdit

  • materia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • materia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • materia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • materia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • my subject grows as I write: materia mihi crescit
    • abundance of material: materia rerum et copia uberrima
    • abundance of material: infinita et immensa materia
  • ^ A. Preuss, Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy 2007, s.v. matter
  • PolishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    Borrowed from Latin materia.

    PronunciationEdit

    • IPA(key): /maˈtɛ.rja/
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛrja
    • Syllabification: ma‧te‧ria

    NounEdit

    materia f

    1. (physics) matter

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    noun

    Further readingEdit

    • materia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • materia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

    PortugueseEdit

    NounEdit

    materia f (plural materias)

    1. Obsolete spelling of matéria

    SpanishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    Borrowed from Latin materia. Doublet of the inherited madera.

    PronunciationEdit

    • IPA(key): /maˈteɾja/ [maˈt̪e.ɾja]
    • Rhymes: -eɾja
    • Syllabification: ma‧te‧ria

    NounEdit

    materia f (plural materias)

    1. (physics) matter (the basic structural component of the universe)
    2. subject (topic; particular area of study)

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    SwedishEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    Borrowed from Latin materia.

    PronunciationEdit

    • (file)

    NounEdit

    materia c (uncountable)

    1. matter

    DeclensionEdit

    Declension of materia 
    Uncountable
    Indefinite Definite
    Nominative materia materian
    Genitive materias materians

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