mater

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin māter (“‘mother’”), partly via late-Middle English matere.[1]

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[edit] Noun

Singular
mater

Plural
maters or matres

mater (plural maters or matres)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (obsolete) The womb.
  2. (British slang, now chiefly archaic, humorous, or ironic)[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.”

[edit] Etymology 2

mate +‎ -er [2]

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[edit] Noun

Singular
mater

Plural
maters

mater (plural maters)

  1. (biology)[2] Someone or something that mates.

[edit] Etymology 3

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mater

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) material, materials

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  • Notes:
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 “mater, n.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; Mar. 2009]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “mater, n.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft entry; Mar. 2001]

[edit] Bosnian

[edit] Etymology

From Slavic; cognate with Latin mater and Sanskrit मातृ (mātR)

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mater f (plural matere)

  1. mother

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[edit] French

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mater

  1. (slang) To ogle, to check out, to watch (eg. an attractive person)

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   Conjugation of mater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive mater avoir maté
gerund en matant Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle matant
past participle maté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present mate mates mate matons matez matent
imperfect matais matais matait mations matiez mataient
past historic matai matas mata matâmes matâtes matèrent
future materai materas matera materons materez materont
conditional materais materais materait materions materiez materaient
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses		 present mate mates mate mations matiez matent
imperfect matasse matasses matât matassions matassiez matassent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— mate — matons matez —

[edit] Latin

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māter et eius īnfāns (mother and her baby)

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Common Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (mat’)), Persian مادر (madar), Mycenaean Greek 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).

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māter (genitive mātris); f, third declension

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

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Number Singular Plural
nominative māter mātrēs
genitive mātris mātrum
dative mātrī mātribus
accusative mātrem mātrēs
ablative mātre mātribus
vocative māter mātrēs

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[edit] Norwegian

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mater

  1. present tense of mate.

[edit] Serbian

[edit] Etymology

From Slavic; cognate with Latin mater and Sanskrit मातृ (mātR)

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mater f. (plural matere) (Cyrillic spelling матер)

  1. mother

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[edit] Slovak

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From Common Slavic; cognate with Latin mater and Sanskrit मातृ (mātR)

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mater f.
irregular declension
  1. mother

[edit] Declension

Singular Plural
nominative mater matere
genitive matere materi
dative materi materiam
accusative mater matere
vocative mater matere
locative materi materiach
instrumental materou materami

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