materialis

Latin

Etymology

From materia +‎ -alis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maː.te.riˈaː.lis/, [mäːt̪ɛriˈäːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.te.riˈa.lis/, [mät̪eriˈäːlis]

Adjective

māteriālis (neuter māteriāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) material (made of matter)

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	māteriālis	māteriāle		māteriālēs	māteriālia
Genitive	māteriālis			māteriālium
Dative	māteriālī			māteriālibus
Accusative	māteriālem	māteriāle		māteriālēs māteriālīs	māteriālia
Ablative	māteriālī			māteriālibus
Vocative	māteriālis	māteriāle		māteriālēs	māteriālia

Descendants

• English: suppositio materialis
• → Old French: material
  • Middle French: material
    • → Middle Dutch: materiael
      • Dutch: materiaal
        • Afrikaans: materiaal
• Russian: материал (material)

References

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