mater
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via late-Middle English matere.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtə/[1]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/[1], /ˈmɑtɚ/[1]
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
mater (plural maters or matres)
- (Britain slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous)[1] Mother.
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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.
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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.”
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Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mater (plural maters)
References[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
mater
- to get the better of
- to checkmate
- (slang) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of mater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | mater | avoir maté | |||||
gerund | en matant | en ayant maté | |||||
present participle | matant /ma.tɑ̃/ |
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past participle | maté /ma.te/ |
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person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
simple tenses |
present | mate /mat/ |
mates /mat/ |
mate /mat/ |
matons /ma.tɔ̃/ |
matez /ma.te/ |
matent /mat/ |
imperfect | matais /ma.tɛ/ |
matais /ma.tɛ/ |
matait /ma.tɛ/ |
mations /ma.tjɔ̃/ |
matiez /ma.tje/ |
mataient /ma.tɛ/ |
|
past historic1 | matai /ma.te/ |
matas /ma.ta/ |
mata /ma.ta/ |
matâmes /ma.tam/ |
matâtes /ma.tat/ |
matèrent /ma.tɛʁ/ |
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future | materai /ma.tʁe/ |
materas /ma.tʁa/ |
matera /ma.tʁa/ |
materons /ma.tʁɔ̃/ |
materez /ma.tʁe/ |
materont /ma.tʁɔ̃/ |
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conditional | materais /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materais /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materait /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materions /ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
materiez /ma.tə.ʁje/ |
materaient /ma.tʁɛ/ |
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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 anterior1 | 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 /mat/ |
mates /mat/ |
mate /mat/ |
mations /ma.tjɔ̃/ |
matiez /ma.tje/ |
matent /mat/ |
imperfect1 | matasse /ma.tas/ |
matasses /ma.tas/ |
matât /ma.ta/ |
matassions /ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
matassiez /ma.ta.sje/ |
matassent /ma.tas/ |
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compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
— | mate /mat/ |
— | matons /ma.tɔ̃/ |
matez /ma.te/ |
— | ||
1literary tenses |
Further reading[edit]
- “mater” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Proto-Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (matʹ)), Persian مادر (mâdar), Mycenaean Greek 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
māter f (genitive mātris); third declension
- mother (female parent)
- mother (source, origin)
- matron of a house
- honorific title
- woman
- nurse
- motherland
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | māter | mātrēs |
genitive | mātris | mātrum |
dative | mātrī | mātribus |
accusative | mātrem | mātrēs |
ablative | mātre | mātribus |
vocative | māter | mātrēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from mater
Related terms[edit]
Terms related to mater
Descendants[edit]
Descendants
- Ido: matro
- Interlingua: matre
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Ladin: mère
- Lombard: mader
- Middle English: matere
- English: mater
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: mai
- Novial: matra
- Old Franco-Provençal: *mādre, māðre
- Franco-Provençal: mâre
- Old French: medre, mere
- Old Leonese:
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- mater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus
- son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Verb[edit]
mater
- present tense of mate
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Noun[edit]
mater
- accusative singular form of mati
Anagrams[edit]
Slovak[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *mati; cognate with Latin māter and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, genitive plural materí, declension pattern of dlaň)
Declension[edit]
Declension of mater
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from mater
Further reading[edit]
- mater in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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