Material

See also: material, materiál, and materiał

German

Etymology

From Latin māteriālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat(e)ˈri̯aːl/
  • IPA^(key): [ma.te.ʁiˈaːl], [-tə-] (especially formal)

    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

      (file)

  • IPA^(key): [ma.tʁiˈaːl] (most usual form in Germany)
  • IPA^(key): [ma.tɐˈjaːl], [-tər-] (regional, including eastern Germany, Bavaria, Austria)

    • Audio (Austria):

      (file)

• Rhymes: -aːl
• Hyphenation: Ma‧te‧ri‧al

Noun

Material n (strong, genitive Materials, plural Materialien)

1. material (matter)

   Synonym: Stoff

Declension

Declension of Material [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Material	die	Materialien
genitive	eines	des	Materials	der	Materialien
dative	einem	dem	Material	den	Materialien
accusative	ein	das	Material	die	Materialien

Hyponyms

• Altmaterial
• Arbeitsmaterial
• Ausgangsmaterial
• Basismaterial
• Baumaterial
• Beschichtungsmaterial
• Biomaterial
• Brennmaterial
• Dichtungsmaterial
• Füllmaterial
• Grundmaterial
• Kernmaterial
• Lehrmaterial
• Nachweismaterial
• Nanomaterial
• Rohmaterial
• Spülsaummaterial
• Trägermaterial
• Vormaterial

Derived terms

• materialmäßig

Related terms

• Materialeigenschaft
• Materialermüdung
• Materialklasse
• Materialmangel
• Materialschlacht
• Materialverbrauch

Descendants

• → Polish: materiał, materyjał (Middle Polish), materjał (pre-reform orthography (1936))
  • → Kashubian: materiôł

Further reading

• “Material” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Material” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Material” in Duden online
• “Material” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Material on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /materiˈaːl/

Noun

Material n (plural Materiale)

1. material

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Material”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch