materia

See also: matéria and matèria

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin materia. Cf. madera.

Noun

materia f (plural materies)

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

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism, ultimately from Latin māteria.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

materia

1. matter

Declension

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

Synonyms

• aine

Compounds

• antimateria

Related terms

• materiaali
• materialismi
• materialisti

Anagrams

• maireat

Italian

Alternative forms

• matera (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed (in this form) from Latin materia.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

materia f (plural materie)

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

Antonyms

• antimateria

Related terms

• materiale
• materia prima
• materico

Anagrams

• amartie, ametria, armiate, ramiate, riamate

Ladin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin materia.

Noun

materia f (plural materies)

1. matter, material

Latin

Alternative forms

• māteriēs

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maːˈte.ri.a/, [mäːˈt̪ɛriä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈte.ri.a/, [mäˈt̪ɛːriä]

Noun

māteria f (genitive māteriae); first declension

2. 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.

3. timber

   Synonym: lignum

4. (figurative) source, origin

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

• māterior

Descendants

• Asturian: madera, materia
• → Franco-Provençal: matièri
• → Old French: matere
  • French: matière
  • → Middle Dutch: materie
    • Dutch: materie
      • Negerhollands: materie, matering
      • → Indonesian: materi
  • → Middle English: matere
    • English: matter
    • Scots: matter
• → German: Materie
• Hunsrik: Materje
• → Italian: materia
• Old Francoprovençal: maieiri
• Old Galician-Portuguese: madeira
  • Fala: madeira, maeira, meira
  • Galician: madeira
  • Portuguese: madeira
• → Portuguese: matéria (learned)
• → Romanian: materie
• → Russian: мате́рия (matérija), мате́рія (matérija)
  • → Kazakh: материя (materiä)
• Sicilian: materia, matiriali
• Old Spanish: madera
  • Spanish: madera
• → Spanish: materia
• → Swedish: materia
• → Turkish: öğe (calque)

References

• “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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin materia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈtɛ.rja/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrja
• Syllabification: ma‧te‧ria

Noun

materia f

1. (physics) matter

Declension

Declension of materia

	singular
nominative	materia
genitive	materii
dative	materii
accusative	materię
instrumental	materią
locative	materii
vocative	materio

Derived terms

noun

• antymateria

 

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

materia f (plural materias)

1. Obsolete spelling of matéria

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin materia. Doublet of the inherited madera.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

materia f (plural materias)

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

Derived terms

• antimateria
• en materia de
• entrar en materia
• materia blanca
• materia de Estado
• materia del sacramento
• materia fecal
• materia gris
• materia oscura
• materia prima
• nombre de materia

 

Related terms

• material

 

Further reading

• “materia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin materia.

Pronunciation

• audio (Gotland)

  (file)

Noun

materia c (uncountable)

1. matter

Declension

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

Related terms

• antimateria
• material
• materiell

Further reading

• materia in Svensk ordbok.