mateola

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of an unattested noun *matea (“hoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *mot-(i-) (“club, hoe”), perhaps an extension of *met- (“to cut (by measure”). Compare matia (“club, mace”); outside of Italic, cognate to Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock”), Proto-Slavic *motyka (“hoe”), Sanskrit मत्य (matya, “club, harrow”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

mateola f (genitive mateolae); first declension

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. an agricultural implement
    2. a kind of mallet (hammer)
    3. beetle (heavy weight, with a handle or stock, used for driving wedges or pegs, ramming down paving stones, etc.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative mateola mateolae
genitive mateolae mateolārum
dative mateolae mateolīs
accusative mateolam mateolās
ablative mateolā mateolīs
vocative mateola mateolae

Descendants

  • Italian: mazzuola
  • Occitan: maçòla

See also

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
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 366-7
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