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cremate
English
Etymology
Latin crem? (“I burn (something) to ashes; I cremate (something)”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?ime?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k???me?t/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /k???me?t/
Verb
cremate (third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated)
- (transitive) To burn something to ashes.
- (transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).
Related terms
- cremation
- crematorium
Translations
Anagrams
- ceramet, meercat
Italian
Verb
cremate
- second-person plural present of cremare
- second-person plural imperative of cremare
Anagrams
- certame
Latin
Verb
crem?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of crem?
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mat
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: m?t, IPA(key): /mæt/
- (US) enPR: m?t, IPA(key): /mæt/, [mæ?(t?)]
- Homophones: Matt, matte
- Rhymes: -æt
Etymology 1
From Middle English matte, from Old English meatte, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (mitá, “bed, couch”)).
Noun
mat (plural mats)
- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
- A thickly tangled mess.
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mat (third-person singular simple present mats, present participle matting, simple past and past participle matted)
- (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
- (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
- And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare matte.
Alternative forms
- matt
Noun
mat
- (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
Etymology 3
A clipped form of matinee.
Noun
mat (plural mats)
- (dated slang) Abbreviation of matinee (“performance at a theater”).
- 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, Vol. 6, page 27:
- A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
- 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, Vol. 6, page 27:
Etymology 4
A clipped form of material.
Noun
mat (plural mats)
- (video games, slang) A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
Etymology 5
Noun
mat (plural mats)
- Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”)
Etymology 6
Noun
mat (plural mats)
- (printing) Short for matrix.
Anagrams
- AMT, ATM, MTA, TAM, TMA, amt, amt., atm, tam
Ainu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat/
Noun
mat (Kana spelling ??)
- (mainly in compounds) woman, female
- wife
Synonyms
- menoko
Antonyms
- (woman): okkayo (“man”)
- (wife): hoku (“husband”)
Derived terms
- matne (“female”)
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *mata, from pre-Albanian *mn?to, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower, stand out”) (compare Welsh mynydd, Latin m?ns, Avestan mati (mati)).
Noun
mat m (indefinite plural mate, definite singular mati, definite plural matet)
- seacoast
- riverbank
- sandy shore, sandy beach
Synonyms
- (sandy beach): ranishtë
References
Atong (India)
Etymology
Cognate with Garo mat/Garo mat-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
mat
- wild animal
Derived terms
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *matis (compare Irish maith).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?d/
Adjective
mat
- good
Related terms
- ma
Mutation
Catalan
Noun
mat m (plural mats)
- checkmate
Derived terms
- escac i mat
Czech
Etymology
Paneuropean word, from Persian ??? ???? (š?h m?t, “the king died”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat/
Noun
mat m
- checkmate
Declension
Derived terms
Danish
Adjective
mat (neuter mat, plural and definite singular attributive matte)
- dull, not shiny
- tired
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?t/
- Hyphenation: mat
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch matte, borrowed from Latin matta. Cognates include English mat and German Matte.
Noun
mat m or f (plural matten, diminutive matje n)
- rug, mat
- (hairstyle, chiefly diminutive) mullet
Derived terms
- deurmat
- hangmat
- kokosmat
- mattenklopper
- muismat
- rietmat
- slaapmat
- turnmat
Related terms
- placemat
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch mat (“checkmate”), borrowed from Old French mat, borrowed from Persian ??? ???? (šâh mât, “the king is dead”). Cognate to English checkmate.
Noun
mat n (plural matten)
- checkmate
Related terms
- schaakmat
Etymology 3
From Middle Dutch mat, borrowed from Old French mat, from Latin mattus (“depressed”). See also French mat (adjective).
Adjective
mat (comparative matter, superlative matst)
- matte, not reflecting light
- dull, uninteresting
Inflection
Derived terms
- matglas
Verb
mat
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of matten
- imperative of matten
Etymology 4
See Dutch meten.
Verb
mat
- singular past indicative of meten
References
- “mat” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
- Notes:
Anagrams
- tam
Emilian
Alternative forms
- mât (Modenese, Reggiano)
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mat
Noun
mat m (plural mat) (Mirandola)
- insane
Synonyms
- matùs (Carpigiano)
Faroese
Etymology
From the noun matur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?a?t/
- Rhymes: -?a?t
- Homophone: mæt
Noun
mat
- accusative singular of matur.
Anagrams
- amt
French
Etymology 1
Probably from Latin mattus, which is from madere; see Italian matto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma/
- Rhymes: -a
- Homophone: ma
Adjective
mat (feminine singular mate, masculine plural mats, feminine plural mates)
- matt
- pale
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of the French expression échec et mat, from Persian ??? ???? (shah mat, “the king is ambushed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat/
- Rhymes: -at
- Homophones: mate, matent, mates, matte, mattent, mattes, math, maths
Adjective
mat (feminine singular mate, masculine plural mats, feminine plural mates)
- checkmated
Noun
mat m (plural mats)
- checkmate
Derived terms
- échec et mat
References
- Notes:
Anagrams
- AMT
Further reading
- “mat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Garo
Noun
mat
- squirrel
Prefix
mat
- prefix for mammals
Gothic
Romanization
mat
- Romanization of ????????????
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
Noun
mat n (genitive singular mats, nominative plural möt)
- (usually uncountable) evaluation
Declension
Related terms
- meta (“to evaluate”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
mat
- inflection of matur:
- indefinite accusative singular
- indefinite dative singular
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German mit, from Proto-Germanic *midi. Cognate with German mit, Dutch met, West Frisian mei, Icelandic með.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Preposition
mat
- with
Antonyms
- ouni
Maricopa
Noun
mat
- earth
Marshallese
Pronunciation
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [m??t?]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /m?æt?/
- Bender phonemes: {mat}
Etymology 1
From Proto-Micronesian *masu, from Proto-Oceanic *masu?, contraction of Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mabosu?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *b?su?, from Proto-Austronesian *b?su?. Cognate with Tongan mahu (“abound in food”).
Adjective
mat
- full (after eating), satiated
Etymology 2
Adjective
mat
- cooked
References
- Marshallese–English Online Dictionary
Northern Sami
Pronoun
mat
- nominative plural of mii
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ma?t/, [m??t?]
Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
From Old Norse matr. Cognates include: Danish mad, Swedish mat, Gothic ???????????????? (mats), Old English mete (English meat).
Noun
mat m (definite singular maten, uncountable)
- food
Derived terms
Related terms
- mate
See also
- føde
- næring
Etymology 2
Verb
mat
- imperative of mate
References
- “mat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse matr.
Noun
mat m (definite singular maten, uncountable)
- food
Derived terms
References
- “mat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Adjective
mat m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mate)
- checkmated; in checkmate
Old Irish
Verb
mat
- third-person plural present subjunctive of masu
Paipai
Noun
mat
- land
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat/
Etymology 1
From Arabic ????? (m?t), from Persian ??? ???? (šâh mât).
Noun
mat m anim
- checkmate
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Dutch maat.
Noun
mat m pers
- mate (a ship's officer)
- mate (in naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer)
Declension
Etymology 3
Borrowed from German matt.
Noun
mat m inan
- matt, matte, dull colour or surface
Declension
Derived terms
- matowy
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
mat
- genitive plural of mata
Further reading
- mat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French mat.
Adjective
mat m or n (feminine singular mat?, masculine plural ma?i, feminine and neuter plural mate)
- matte
Declension
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin mar?tus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mat]
Noun
mat m
- boy
Semai
Etymology
From Proto-Aslian *mat, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *mat (“eye”). Cognate with Khmer ???? (m??t), Mon ??? (mòt), Vietnamese m?t, Car Nicobarese mat.
Noun
mat
- eye
References
Slavomolisano
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian mati.
Noun
mat f
- mother
Declension
References
- Ivica Peša Matracki and Nada Županovi? Filipin (2014), Changes in the System of Oblique Cases in Molise Croatian Dialect.
- Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).
Slovak
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (m?ta) in Persian ??? ???? (šâh mât, “the king is dead”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat/
Noun
mat m (genitive singular matu, nominative plural maty, genitive plural matov, declension pattern of dub)
- The final move in a chess game, the checkmate.
Declension
Derived terms
- matový
Related terms
- šach-mat
References
- mat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Anagrams
- tam
- tma
Spanish
Etymology
From English mat.
Noun
mat m (plural mats)
- mat (for exercise)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse matr, from Proto-Germanic *matiz, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??t/
Noun
mat c
- food
Declension
Derived terms
References
- mat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- tam
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English mat.
Noun
mat
- sitting or sleeping mat
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mat/
Noun
mat (nominative plural mats)
- marriage, wedlock, matrimony
Declension
Derived terms
- matan
- matikön
- matön
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