Borrowed fromLatinmāteria. Cf.madera.
Internationalism, ultimately fromLatinmāteria.
materia
Inflection ofmateria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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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. |
Borrowed (in this form) 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 | |
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nominative | māteria | māteriae |
genitive | māteriae | māteriārum |
dative | māteriae | māteriīs |
accusative | māteriam | māteriās |
ablative | māteriā | māteriīs |
vocative | māteria | māteriae |
Learned borrowing fromLatinmāteria.
materia f
Borrowed fromLatinmāteria. Doublet of the inheritedmadera.
materia c (uncountable)
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | materia | materias |
definite | materian | materians | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |