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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)

1. (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
2. (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)

1. (biology) Someone or something that mates.

Etymology 3

See 'mater.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?me?t?/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

mater (plural maters)

1. 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.

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

1. 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

1. (transitive) to checkmate
2. (figuratively, transitive) to suppress, quell (a revolution, person, insurrection)

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps from Spanish mata (“bush”).

Verb

mater

1. (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

1. mother (female parent)

2. mother (source, origin)
3. matron of a house
4. honorific title
5. woman
6. nurse
7. motherland
8. 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)

1. Alternative form of matere

Norman

Verb

mater

1. to kill

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mater

1. present of mate

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mater

1. accusative singular of mati
2. (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?)

1. mother

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• mater in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

English

Alternative forms

• Ø (linguistics, abbreviation)
• ? (mathematics, abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin n?llus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

null (plural nulls)

1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
3. Something that has no force or meaning.
4. (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (?), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
5. (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

   Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.

6. One of the beads in nulled work.
7. (statistics) Null hypothesis.

Translations

Adjective

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

1. Having no validity; "null and void"
2. Insignificant.
   • 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:

     In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.

3. Absent or non-existent.
4. (mathematics) Of the null set.
5. (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
6. (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

Antonyms

• antinull
• non-null

Derived terms

• null determiner
• nullary
• nullity

Verb

null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
2. To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
3. (computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).

Related terms

• annul
• nulled work

See also

• nil

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Latin n?llus (“none”).

Numeral

null

1. (Luserna) zero

References

• “null” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Numeral

null

1. zero

Faroese

Etymology

From Latin nullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Numeral

null

1. zero

Noun

null n (genitive singular nuls, plural null)

1. (mathematics) the numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero

Declension

German

Etymology

From the noun Null (“the number zero”), from Italian nulla, from Latin nulla, feminine singular of nullus (“no, none”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l/

Numeral

null

1. zero; nil; nought; (tennis) love (integer number between -1 and 1, denoting no quantity at all)

2. (colloquial) zero; no

   Synonym: (überhaupt) kein

Coordinate terms

Adjective

null (not comparable)

1. (specialist, law, chiefly predicative) null (having no validity)

Declension

Derived terms

• null und nichtig (also in common use)

Further reading

• “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online; cp. “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online
• “null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache; cp. “Null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nul/

Numeral

null

1. zero

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin nullus (“no one, none, no”), from Proto-Italic *ne oinolos, from Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).

Determiner

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null penger - to have no money

Numeral

null

1. zero, nought, nil

Noun

null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nuller, definite plural nullene)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null or nuller, definite plural nulla or nullene)

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
2. a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)

Derived terms

• nullstille
• nulltoleranse
• nullvekst

References

• “null” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin nullus

Determiner

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null pengar - to have no money

Numeral

null

1. zero, nought, nil

Noun

null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nullar, definite plural nullane)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null, definite plural nulla)

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
2. a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)

Derived terms

• nulltoleranse
• nullvekst

References

• “null” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German null.

Numeral

null

1. zero