madera

See also: Madera

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/, [maˈð̞e.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Hyphenation: ma‧de‧ra

Noun

madera f (plural maderes)

1. wood

Italian

Noun

madera m (invariable)

1. madeira (wine)

See also

• Madera

Anagrams

• damare, damerà

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese madeira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/

Noun

madera f (plural maderas)

1. wood
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49r:

     […] e enbẏo amonte libano .lxxx. mil om̃s q̃ taiaſſen madera. e .lxx. mil maçoneros pora la obra de la piedra ſin los maẏorales q̃ les comendauan q̃ auien a fer.

     […] And he sent to Mount Lebanon eighty thousand men to cut wood and seventy thousand masons for the working of stone, besides the foremen who commanded them what they were to do.

Derived terms

• madero

Descendants

• Spanish: madera

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish madera, from Latin māteria (compare French matière, Italian materia, Portuguese madeira), from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Doublet of materia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/ [maˈð̞e.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ma‧de‧ra

Noun

madera f (plural maderas)

1. wood
2. wooden plank, board
3. makings

   No tiene madera de instigador.

   He hasn't got the makings of an instigator.

Derived terms

• a media madera
• alcohol de madera
• amaderado
• corral de madera
• enmaderar
• madera de hilo
• madera de raja
• madera de sierra
• madera del aire
• madera en blanco
• madera en rollo
• maderar
• maderero
• madero
• tocar madera
• trituradora de madera

 

Related terms

• materia
• material

 

Further reading

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