mataxa

Latin

Alternative forms

• metaxa

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μέταξα (métaxa).

Noun

mataxa f (genitive mataxae); first declension

1. raw silk
2. thick string or thread

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mataxa	mataxae
Genitive	mataxae	mataxārum
Dative	mataxae	mataxīs
Accusative	mataxam	mataxās
Ablative	mataxā	mataxīs
Vocative	mataxa	mataxae

Descendants

• → Albanian: mëndafsh
• Aragonese: madaxa
• Aromanian: mãtasi, mãtase
• → Basque: mataza
• Catalan: madeixa
• Dalmatian: matuos
• French: matasse
• Galician: madeixa
• Italian: matassa
• Portuguese: matassa, madeixa
• Romanian: mătase
• Old Spanish: madexa
  • Spanish: madeja

References

• “mataxa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mataxa 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)
• mataxa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.