different between mater vs substance
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:
substance
English
Alternative forms
- substaunce (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English substance, from Old French substance, from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from subst?ns, present active participle of subst? (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + st? (“stand”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?bst?ns/, [?s?bst?nts]
Noun
substance (countable and uncountable, plural substances)
- Physical matter; material.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- Synonyms: matter, stuff
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
- Heroic virtue did his actions guide, / And he the substance, not the appearance, chose.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
- It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.
- Synonyms: crux, gist
- Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
- Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
- And there wasted his substance with riotous living.
- A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
- Drugs (illegal narcotics)
- Synonyms: dope, gear
- (theology) Hypostasis.
Synonyms
- (physical matter): See also Thesaurus:substance
- (essential part of anything): See also Thesaurus:gist
- (drugs): See also Thesaurus:recreational drug
Related terms
Translations
Verb
substance (third-person singular simple present substances, present participle substancing, simple past and past participle substanced)
- (rare, transitive) To give substance to; to make real or substantial.
See also
- style
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from subst?ns, present active participle of subst? (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + st? (“stand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syp.st??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
substance f (plural substances)
- substance
Derived terms
Further reading
- “substance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- cubassent
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French substance.
Noun
substance
- essence
Descendants
- English: substance
Old French
Alternative forms
- sostance, sustance
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin substantia.
Noun
substance f (oblique plural substances, nominative singular substance, nominative plural substances)
- most essential; substantial part
- existence
Related terms
- substantiel
Descendants
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- what substances are produced by cellular respiration
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