Borrowed fromLatinmāteria(“matter, the material world”).
materia (uncountable)
Borrowed fromLatinmāteria. Cf.madera.
Internationalism, ultimately fromLatinmāteria.
materia
| Inflection ofmateria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | materia | materiat | |
| genitive | materian | materioiden materioitten | |
| partitive | materiaa | materioita | |
| illative | materiaan | materioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | materia | materiat | |
| accusative | nom. | materia | materiat |
| gen. | materian | ||
| genitive | materian | materioiden materioitten materiainrare | |
| partitive | materiaa | materioita | |
| inessive | materiassa | materioissa | |
| elative | materiasta | materioista | |
| illative | materiaan | materioihin | |
| adessive | materialla | materioilla | |
| ablative | materialta | materioilta | |
| allative | materialle | materioille | |
| essive | materiana | materioina | |
| translative | materiaksi | materioiksi | |
| abessive | materiatta | materioitta | |
| instructive | — | materioin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Latinization of oldermatera, fromLatinmāteria.
Traditionally derived frommāter(“mother, at least in the sense of 'source'”) +-ia, in which case cognate withOld Armenianմայր(mayr,“cedar”) andմայրի(mayri,“forest”).[1]Sense 1 is asemantic loan fromAncient Greekὕλη(húlē,“wood, matter”), introduced by Cicero.[2]
māteria f (genitivemāteriae);first declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | māteria | māteriae |
| genitive | māteriae | māteriārum |
| dative | māteriae | māteriīs |
| accusative | māteriam | māteriās |
| ablative | māteriā | māteriīs |
| vocative | māteria | māteriae |
Borrowings:
Learned borrowing fromLatinmāteria.
materia f
Borrowed fromLatinmāteria. Doublet of the inheritedmadera.
materia c (uncountable)
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | materia | materias |
| definite | materian | materians | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |