mater
English
Etymology 1
From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
mater (plural maters or matres)
- (British slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous)[1] Mother.
- 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.
- 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.”
- (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
mater (plural maters)
Etymology 3
See 'mater.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
mater (plural maters)
- 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.
- 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover (→ISBN), page 28:
References
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mater f
- title of an abbess
See also
Related terms
Further reading
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French macter (“to kill”), for the fourth meaning. Cognate to Spanish matar.
Pronunciation
Verb
mater
- to get the better of
- to checkmate
- (slang) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
- (archaic) to kill
- Synonym: tuer
Conjugation
Conjugation of mater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | matant /ma.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | maté /ma.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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 historic2 | matai /ma.te/ |
matas /ma.ta/ |
mata /ma.ta/ |
matâmes /ma.tam/ |
matâtes /ma.tat/ |
matèrent /ma.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | materai /ma.tʁe/ |
materas /ma.tʁa/ |
matera /ma.tʁa/ |
materons /ma.tʁɔ̃/ |
materez /ma.tʁe/ |
materont /ma.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | materais /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materais /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materait /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materions /ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
materiez /ma.tə.ʁje/ |
materaient /ma.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mate /mat/ |
mates /mat/ |
mate /mat/ |
mations /ma.tjɔ̃/ |
matiez /ma.tje/ |
matent /mat/ |
| imperfect2 | matasse /ma.tas/ |
matasses /ma.tas/ |
matât /ma.ta/ |
matassions /ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
matassiez /ma.ta.sje/ |
matassent /ma.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mate /mat/ |
— | matons /ma.tɔ̃/ |
matez /ma.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “mater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old English mōdor (English mother).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.ter/, [ˈmäːt̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.ter/, [ˈmäːt̪er]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
māter f (genitive mātris); third declension
- mother (female parent)
- mother (source, origin)
- matron of a house
- honorific title
- woman
- nurse
- motherland
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | māter | mātrēs |
| Genitive | mātris | mātrum |
| Dative | mātrī | mātribus |
| Accusative | mātrem | mātrēs |
| Ablative | mātre | mātribus |
| Vocative | māter | mātrēs |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants
See also
References
- “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
Middle English
Noun
mater
- Alternative form of matere
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
mater
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
mater
- accusative singular of mati
- (by extension, regional) Alternative form of mati
Anagrams
Slovak
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *mati.
Pronunciation
Noun
mater f
Declension
Declension of mater
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mater”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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