madeira
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English
Noun
madeira (countable and uncountable, plural madeiras)
- Alternative letter-case form of Madeira (“fortified wine”)
Anagrams
Fala
Alternative forms
- maeira (Mañegu)
- meira (Lagarteiru)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria.
Pronunciation
Noun
madeira f (plural madeiras)
References
- Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN
Finnish
Etymology
< Madeira
Pronunciation
Noun
madeira
- Madeira (fortified wine produced on Madeira)
- Synonym: madeiraviini
Declension
| Inflection of madeira (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | madeira | madeirat | ||
| genitive | madeiran | madeiroiden madeiroitten madeirojen | ||
| partitive | madeiraa | madeiroita madeiroja | ||
| illative | madeiraan | madeiroihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | madeira | madeirat | ||
| accusative | nom. | madeira | madeirat | |
| gen. | madeiran | |||
| genitive | madeiran | madeiroiden madeiroitten madeirojen madeirainrare | ||
| partitive | madeiraa | madeiroita madeiroja | ||
| inessive | madeirassa | madeiroissa | ||
| elative | madeirasta | madeiroista | ||
| illative | madeiraan | madeiroihin | ||
| adessive | madeiralla | madeiroilla | ||
| ablative | madeiralta | madeiroilta | ||
| allative | madeiralle | madeiroille | ||
| essive | madeirana | madeiroina | ||
| translative | madeiraksi | madeiroiksi | ||
| abessive | madeiratta | madeiroitta | ||
| instructive | — | madeiroin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “madeira”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin materia. Cf. also materia.
Noun
madeira f (plural madeiras)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Cognates with Galician madeira and Spanish madera. Doublet of matéria, a borrowing.
Alternative forms
Noun
madeira f (plural madeiras)
- (uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)
- wood (the wood of a particular species of tree)
- Synonym: pau
- a piece of timber
- Synonym: pau
- (music, usually in the plural) woodwind instrument
Derived terms
Related terms
Interjection
madeira!
- timber!; used by lumberjacks to warn others when a tree is falling down
Etymology 2
Shortening of vinho da Madeira (literally “wine of Madeira”), after the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Alternative forms
Noun
madeira m (uncountable)
- a type of fortified wine produced in the island of Madeira
- Synonyms: vinho da Madeira, vinho Madeira
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
madeira
- inflection of madeirar:
Further reading
madeira on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt- madeiras on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
- vinho da Madeira on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
