mater

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See also: mateř, mâter, mäter, and måter

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin māter (mother), partly via Late Middle English matere.[1] Doublet of mother.

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Noun[edit]

mater (plural maters or matres)

  1. (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous)[1] Mother.
    Coordinate term: pater
  2. (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
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Etymology 2[edit]

mate +‎ -er [2]

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Noun[edit]

mater (plural maters)

  1. (biology)[2] Someone or something that mates.

Etymology 3[edit]

See 'mater.

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Noun[edit]

mater (plural maters)

  1. Alternative form of 'mater (tomato)
    • 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover, →ISBN, page 28:
      "A mater sandwich would be better." Trixie said, "but I'll take it if that's all you got." As if we were woefully deprived of food. So Trixie had a tomato sandwich for lunch, carefully prepared by Lillian but for which she received no thanks.

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 mater, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision; March 2009)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 mater, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft entry; March 2001)

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Czech[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Derived from Latin māter.

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Noun[edit]

mater f (indeclinable)

  1. title of an abbess

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Further reading[edit]

  • mater in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • mater in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • mater in Internetová jazyková příručka

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From mat (mate) +‎ -er.

Verb[edit]

mater

  1. (transitive) to checkmate
  2. (figurative, transitive) to suppress, quell (a revolution, person, insurrection)
    • 1997, “L'Empire du côté obscur”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:
      Adapter ma technique à la manière du caméléon / Sans pitié pour mater la rébellion
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Uncertain, perhaps from Spanish mata (bush).[1]

Verb[edit]

mater

  1. (slang, transitive) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
    • 1997, “Demain, c’est loin”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:
      Mater les photos, majeur aujourd’hui, poto / Pas mal d’amis se sont déjà tués en moto
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Etymology and history of “mater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin[edit]

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māter et īnfāns suus (a mother and her baby)

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old English mōdor (English mother).

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Noun[edit]

māter f (genitive mātris); third declension

  1. mother (female parent)
    Synonym: genetrīx
    Nē, māter; suam.(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. mother (source, origin)
  3. matron of a house
  4. honorific title
  5. woman
  6. nurse
  7. motherland
  8. maternity, motherhood

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative māter mātrēs
Genitive mātris mātrum
Dative mātrī mātribus
Accusative mātrem mātrēs
Ablative mātre mātribus
Vocative māter mātrēs

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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

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

mater (plural maters)

  1. Alternative form of matere
    • 1470–1483 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, verso, lines 15–18:
      Than ſpake ẜ Gawayne And ſeyde brothir · ẜ Aggravayne I pray you and charge you meve no ſuch · maters no more a fore me fro wyte you well I woll nat be of youre counceyle //
      Then spoke Sir Gawain, and said, “Brother, Sir Agrivain, I pray you and charge you move not such matters any more before me, for be ye assured I will not be of your counsel.”

Norman[edit]

Verb[edit]

mater

  1. to kill

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Verb[edit]

mater

  1. present of mate

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Noun[edit]

mater

  1. accusative singular of mati
  2. (by extension, regional) Alternative form of mati

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Slovak[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mati.

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Noun[edit]

mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, genitive plural materí, declension pattern of dlaň)

  1. mother

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Further reading[edit]

  • mater in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English matter.

Noun[edit]

mater m (plural materion)

  1. matter, affair
    Synonyms: neges, busnes
  2. substance
    Synonyms: sylwedd, defnydd

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Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mater fater unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mater”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies