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mater

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See also:mateř,mâter,mäter,andmåter

English

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Etymology 1

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FromLatinmāter(“mother”), partly via LateMiddle Englishmatere.^[1]Doublet ofmata andmother. Ancestor ofmatrix.

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtə/^[1]
Audio(Southern England): (file)
(US)IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/,^[1]/ˈmɑtɚ/^[1]
Rhymes:-eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

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mater (pluralmatersormatres)

(British, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous)^[1]Mother.
Coordinate term:pater
- 1919 June 14,Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “A Damsel in Distress”, inGeorge Horace Lorimer, editor,The Saturday Evening Post, volume191, number50, Philadelphia, Pa.:The Curtis Publishing Company,→ISSN, chapter XX,page57, column 1:
  Theirmaters are all pals of mymater’s, 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”, inThe Secret Sanctuary (The Scherz Phoenix Books), Berne: Alfred Scherz Publishers, published1945,→OCLC,page32:
  And then there’s themater! Poor oldmater! 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, “Holding Back the Years”, inPicture Book, performed bySimply Red:
  Strangled by the wishes of pater / Hoping for the arms ofmater / Get to me the sooner or later
- 1997,Colleen McCullough,Caesar’s Women, page17:
  “Mater, you look well.” / “I am well. And you,” she said in that dryly prosaic deep voice of hers, “look healed.”
(anatomy) Ameninx; thedura mater,arachnoid mater, orpia mater of thebrain.

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Etymology 2

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Frommate +‎-er.^[2]

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtə/^[2]
(US)IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/^[2]
Rhymes:-eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

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mater (pluralmaters)

(biology)^[2] Someone or something thatmates.

Etymology 3

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See'mater.

Pronunciation

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(US)IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/
Rhymes:-eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

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mater (pluralmaters)

Alternative form of'mater(“tomato”)
- 2015, Ann B. Ross,Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover,→ISBN, page28:
  "Amater 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.

Derived terms

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mater sammich

References

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↑^1.0^1.1^1.2^1.3^1.4“mater,n.” listed in theOxford English Dictionary (draft revision; March 2009)
↑^2.0^2.1^2.2^2.3“mater,n.” listed in theOxford English Dictionary (draft entry; March 2001)

Anagrams

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METAR,Marte,armet,metra,ramet,tamer,terma,trema,tréma

Czech

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Etymology

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Derived fromLatinmāter.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): [ˈmatɛr]
Rhymes:-atɛr

Noun

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mater f (indeclinable)

title of anabbess

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French

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /ma.te/
Audio(Paris): (file)

Etymology 1

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Frommat(“mate”) +‎-er.

Verb

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mater

(transitive) tocheckmate
(figuratively, transitive) tosuppress,quell (a revolution, person, insurrection)
- 1997, “L'Empire du côté obscur”, inL'École du micro d'argent, performed byIAM:
  Adapter ma technique à la manière du caméléon / Sans pitié pourmater la rébellion
  (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofmater(see alsoAppendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	mater
present participle orgerund¹	simple	matant /ma.tɑ̃/
present participle orgerund¹	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 ofavoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic ofavoir + past participle
	future perfect	future ofavoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional ofavoir + 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/
(simple tenses)	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 ofavoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	mate /mat/	—	matons /ma.tɔ̃/	matez /ma.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative ofavoir + past participle	—	simple imperative ofavoir + past participle	simple imperative ofavoir + past participle	—
¹ The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen.
² In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French, pp.77,78,79,81).

Etymology 2

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Uncertain, perhaps fromSpanishmata(“bush”).^[1]

Verb

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mater

(slang, transitive) toogle, tocheck out, towatch (e.g. an attractive person)
- 1997, “Demain, c’est loin”, inL'École du micro d'argent, performed byIAM:
  Mater les photos, majeur aujourd’hui, poto / Pas mal d’amis se sont déjà tués en moto
  (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofmater(see alsoAppendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	mater
present participle orgerund¹	simple	matant /ma.tɑ̃/
present participle orgerund¹	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 ofavoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic ofavoir + past participle
	future perfect	future ofavoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional ofavoir + 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/
(simple tenses)	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 ofavoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	mate /mat/	—	matons /ma.tɔ̃/	matez /ma.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative ofavoir + past participle	—	simple imperative ofavoir + past participle	simple imperative ofavoir + past participle	—
¹ The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen.
² In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French, pp.77,78,79,81).

References

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^Etymology and history of “mater”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Anagrams

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marte,trame,tramé,tréma

Latin

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māter

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Etymology

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FromProto-Italic*mātēr, fromProto-Indo-European*méh₂tēr. Cognate withOld Englishmōdor (Englishmother).

Pronunciation

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(Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ter/,[ˈmäːt̪ɛr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈma.ter/,[ˈmäːt̪er]
Hyphenation:ma‧ter

Noun

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māter f (genitivemātris);third declension

mother(female parent)
Synonym:genetrīx
Nē,māter; suam. ―Weave, mother; [so that] I [can] sew.
mother(source, origin)
matron of a house
honorific title
woman
nurse
motherland
maternity,motherhood

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	māter	mātrēs
genitive	mātris	mātrum
dative	mātrī	mātribus
accusative	mātrem	mātrēs
ablative	mātre	mātribus
vocative	māter	mātrēs

Italo-Romance:
- Italian:madre
- Sicilian:matri
North Italian:
- Friulian:mari
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian:mare,mèr,mèdar,madra
  - Ligurian:moæ,mâre,mâje
  - Lombard:mader,madar,madra
  - Piedmontese:mare,mari,mèri
- Istriot:mare
- Ladin:mère
- Venetan:mare
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal:mâre
- Old French:mere,medre
  - Bourguignon:meire
  - Middle French:mere
    - French:mère
      - Haitian Creole:mè
  - Norman:mère,méthe
  - Walloon:mere
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan:mare
- Gascon:mair
- Occitan:maire
  Limousin:mair
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese:mai
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian:madre,ma
  - Extremaduran:mairi
  - Leonese:mai
  - Mirandese:mai,madre
- Old Galician-Portuguese:madre
  - Galician:madre
  - Portuguese:madre
  - Fala:mairi
- Old Galician-Portuguese:mãy
  - Fala:má
  - Galician:mai,nai
  - Portuguese:mãe (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish:madre
  - Ladino:
    Hebrew script:מאדרי
    Latin script:madre
  - Spanish:madre
    - → Tagalog:madre
Borrowings:
- → English:mater
- → Ido:matro
  - → Esperanto:matro
- → Interlingua:matre
- → Middle English:matere
  - English:mater

References

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“mater”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mater”, inCharlton 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

Middle English

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Noun

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mater (pluralmaters)

Alternative form ofmatere
- 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e.,Thomas Malory], “[Morte Arthur]”, inLe Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England:s.n.],folio 449, verso, lines15–18:
  Than ſpake ẜGawayne And ſeyde brothir · ẜAggravayne 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 suchmatters any more before me, for be ye assured I will not be of your counsel.”