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English
Etymology 1
From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via late-Middle English matere.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mater (plural maters or matres)
- (UK slang, now chiefly archaic, humorous, or sarcastic)[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.”
- 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress, page 100:
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
mater (plural maters)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 “mater, n.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; Mar. 2009]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “mater, n.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft entry; Mar. 2001]
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
mater
Conjugation
Conjugation of mater (see also Appendix:French verbs)| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | mater | avoir maté | |||||
| gerund | en matant | en ayant maté | |||||
| present participle | matant | ||||||
| past participle | maté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses | present | mate | mates | mate | matons | matez | matent |
| imperfect | matais | matais | matait | mations | matiez | mataient | |
| past historic1 | matai | matas | mata | matâmes | matâtes | matèrent | |
| future | materai | materas | matera | materons | materez | materont | |
| conditional | materais | materais | materait | materions | materiez | materaient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses | present | mate | mates | mate | mations | matiez | matent |
| imperfect1 | matasse | matasses | matât | matassions | matassiez | matassent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | mate | — | matons | matez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
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Latin
Latin Wikipedia has an article on: MaterWikipedia la
māter et īnfāns eius (mother and her baby)Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Common Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (mat’)), Persian مادر (madar), Mycenaean Greek 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA: /ˈmaː.ter/
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Noun
māter (genitive mātris); f, third declension
- mother (female parent)
- mother (source, origin)
- matron of a house
- honorific title
- woman
- nurse
- motherland
Inflection
| Number | 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
Norwegian
Verb
mater
- present tense of mate
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
mater
- accusative singular form of mati.
Slovak
Etymology
From Common Slavic; cognate with Latin mater and Sanskrit मातृ (mātR)
Noun
mater f.
- irregular declension
Declension
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mater | matere |
| genitive | matere | materi |
| dative | materi | materiam |
| accusative | mater | matere |
| vocative | mater | matere |
| locative | materi | materiach |
| instrumental | materou | materami |
Derived terms
- materčina
- materina dúška
- materinský
- materný
- materský
- materstvo
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Look up mater in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Mater (English pronunciation: /ˈmeɪtər/, plural matres /ˈmeɪtriːz/) is a formal term for mother, from Latin.
- Mater (anatomy): The dura mater and pia mater are membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord in humans.
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Ireland
- Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Belfast
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Australia
- Mater Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales
- Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales
- Mater Health Services, Brisbane, Australia
- Mater Health Services North Queensland, which incorporates:
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- Mater Hospital, Townsville, Queensland,
- Mater Women's and Children's Hospital
Belgium
- Mater, Belgium, a village near Oudenaarde
Misc
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- An album by the Slovak composer Vladimír Godár featuring singer Iva Bittová
- Acronym of the EU-project Mediterranean Targeted Project II-Mass Transfer and Ecosystem Response MTP-II MATER
- A major part of an astrolabe
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