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mater
English
Etymology 1
From Latin m?ter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere. Doublet of mother.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?me?t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?me?t?/, /?m?t?/
- Rhymes: -e?t?(?)
Noun
mater (plural maters or matres)
- (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
- (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
Related terms
Etymology 2
mate +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?me?t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?me?t?/
- Rhymes: -e?t?(?)
Noun
mater (plural maters)
- (biology) Someone or something that mates.
Etymology 3
See 'mater.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?me?t?/
- Rhymes: -e?t?(?)
Noun
mater (plural maters)
- Alternative form of 'mater (“tomato”)
- 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover (?ISBN), page 28:
- "A mater 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.
- 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover (?ISBN), page 28:
References
Anagrams
- METAR, Marte, armet, metra, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, tréma
Czech
Etymology
Latin m?ter
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mat?r]
- Rhymes: -at?r
Noun
mater f
- title of an abbess
See also
- matka
Related terms
Further reading
- mater in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- mater in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
- mater in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.te/
Etymology 1
From mat (“mate”) +? -er.
Verb
mater
- (transitive) to checkmate
- (figuratively, transitive) to suppress, quell (a revolution, person, insurrection)
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Uncertain, perhaps from Spanish mata (“bush”).
Verb
mater
- (slang, transitive) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
Conjugation
Further reading
- “mater” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
References
Anagrams
- marte, trame, tramé, tréma
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *m?t?r, from Proto-Indo-European *méh?t?r. Cognate with Old English m?dor (English mother).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ma?.ter/, [?mä?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ma.ter/, [?m??t??r]
- Hyphenation: ma?ter
Noun
m?ter f (genitive m?tris); third declension
- mother (female parent)
- mother (source, origin)
- matron of a house
- honorific title
- woman
- nurse
- motherland
- maternity, motherhood
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (mother): genetr?x
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
See also
- mamma
- pater
References
- mater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mater in Charlton 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.
Middle English
Noun
mater (plural maters)
- Alternative form of matere
Norman
Verb
mater
- to kill
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
mater
- present of mate
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
mater
- accusative singular of mati
- (by extension, regional) Alternative form of mati
Anagrams
- trema, metra
Slovak
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *mati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mac?r/
Noun
mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, genitive plural materí, declension pattern of dla?)
- mother
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- mater in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
mater From the web:
macer
English
Etymology
From Middle English macer, from Anglo-Norman macer, from mace (“mace”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e?s?(?)
Noun
macer (plural macers)
- A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. [from 14th c.]
- Synonym: mace-bearer
Anagrams
- Carme, McRae, crame, cream, crema, recam
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *makros, from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós, from *meh??- (“to increase”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (makrós), Old English mæ?er (though English meager is from the Latin via French).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ma.ker/, [?mäk?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ma.t??er/, [?m??t???r]
Adjective
macer (feminine macra, neuter macrum, comparative macrior, superlative macrissimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- (of living things) lean, skinny, meager
- (of inanimate things) thin, poor
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- macer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- macer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- macer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- macer in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman macer; equivalent to mace (“mace”) +? -er (“agentive suffix”).
Alternative forms
- macere, maceere, maser
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?s?r/, /ma??s??r/
Noun
macer (plural macers)
- A macer; a mace-bearer (official)
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:
- Meires and maceres · that menes ben bitwene / Þe kynge and þe comune.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:
Descendants
- English: macer
- Scots: macer
References
- “m?c??re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.
Etymology 2
From Old English *maser.
Noun
macer
- Alternative form of maser
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