mateola
See also: Mateola
Latin
Etymology
From a Proto-Indo-European root describing similar tools (compare matia); cognate to Proto-Germanic *mattukaz, Proto-Slavic *motyka, Sanskrit मत्य (matya, “club, harrow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /maˈte.o.la/, [mäˈt̪eɔɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈte.o.la/, [mäˈt̪ɛːolä]
Noun
mateola f (genitive mateolae); first declension
- Uncertain
- an agricultural implement
- a kind of mallet (hammer)
- beetle (heavy weight, with a handle or stock, used for driving wedges or pegs, ramming down paving stones, etc.)
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | mateola | mateolae |
| Genitive | mateolae | mateolārum |
| Dative | mateolae | mateolīs |
| Accusative | mateolam | mateolās |
| Ablative | mateolā | mateolīs |
| Vocative | mateola | mateolae |
References
- “matĕŏla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mateola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “mateola”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly