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English
Etymology 1
From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere. Doublet of mata and mother.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/, /ˈmɑtɚ/
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
mater (plural maters or matres)
- (British, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
- Coordinate term: pater
- 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.
- 1923, Warwick Deeping, “John Stretton”, in The Secret Sanctuary (The Scherz Phoenix Books), Berne: Alfred Scherz Publishers, published 1945, →OCLC, page 32:
- And then there’s the mater! Poor old mater! She goes about on tiptoe; she’s always watching me and pretending she’s not watching me; I believe she would like to have everything padded with feather beds. All the while she has been wanting me to do the goody book thing, get down on my knees and put my head in her lap and blub.
- 1985, Mick Hucknall, Neil Moss (lyrics and music), “Holding Back the Years”, in Picture Book, performed by Simply Red:
- Strangled by the wishes of pater / Hoping for the arms of mater / Get to me the sooner or later
- 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.
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
mater (plural maters)
Etymology 3
See 'mater.
Pronunciation
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.
References
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mater f (indeclinable)
- title of an abbess
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- mater in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- mater in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- mater in Internetová jazyková příručka
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
mater
- (transitive) to checkmate
- (figuratively, 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)
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Etymology 2
Uncertain, perhaps from Spanish mata (“bush”).
Verb
mater
- (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)
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “mater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
References
- ^ Etymology and history of “mater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old English mōdor (English mother).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.ter/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.ter/,
- Hyphenation: ma‧ter
Noun
māter f (genitive mātris); third declension
- mother (female parent)
- Synonym: genetrīx
- Nē, māter; suam. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- mother (source, origin)
- matron of a house
- honorific title
- woman
- nurse
- motherland
- maternity, motherhood
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
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, 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 (plural maters)
- Alternative form of matere
- 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., 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
Verb
mater
- to kill
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
mater
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
mater
- accusative singular of mati
- (by extension, regional) Alternative form of mati
Anagrams
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mati.
Pronunciation
Noun
mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, genitive plural materí, declension pattern of dlaň)
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
Welsh
Etymology
Noun
mater m (plural materion)
Derived terms
- gwerthfater m (“antimatter”)
- mater tywyll m (“dark matter”)
- materol (“material”, adjective)
Mutation
| 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
- 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