different between matt vs jordan

English

Adjective

matt (comparative more matt, superlative most matt)

1. (chiefly British spelling) alternative spelling of matte

Noun

matt (plural matts)

1. (film) Alternative spelling of matte (“background, often painted or created with computers”)
2. Alternative spelling of mat (“an alloy in coppersmithing”)

Estonian

Noun

matt (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. checkmate (chess)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• matt in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/
• Rhymes: -at

Adjective

matt (comparative matter, superlative am mattesten)

1. dull (not shiny)
2. exhausted, weak, feeble (not lively, vigorous, energetic)
   • 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 624:

Declension

See also

• schachmatt
• mattsetzen

Descendants

• ? Polish: mat

Further reading

• “matt” in Duden online

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *matadak.

Verb

matt

1. (Salaca) creep

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: Matt

Adjective

matt (masculine matten, neuter matt, comparative méi matt, superlative am mattsten)

1. matte, dull, wan
2. feeble, weary

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French mat and German matt

Adjective

matt (neuter singular matt, definite singular and plural matte, comparative mattere, indefinite superlative mattest, definite superlative matteste)

1. (colour) dull, matt
2. weak, feeble, listless
3. (chess) checkmated
4. (glass) frosted

References

• “matt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French mat and German matt

Adjective

matt (neuter singular matt, definite singular and plural matte, comparative mattare, indefinite superlative mattast, definite superlative mattaste)

1. (colour) dull, matt
2. weak, feeble, listless
3. (chess) checkmated
4. (glass) frosted

References

• “matt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German matt.

Adjective

matt

1. weak, faint

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/

Adjective

matt (comparative mattare, superlative mattast)

1. weak, listless
2. (of colours) matte
3. (chess) checkmate, in the phrase göra någon matt

Declension

Antonyms

• (of colours): blank

Related terms

• mattsvart
• schack matt

See also

• mätt
• matta

Anagrams

• tamt

Westrobothnian

Adverb

matt

1. Alternative form of mått

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete): iurdan, iurdane, iurdone, yordan, iourden, iorden, jurdon, jordon, jourdon, jordain, jurden, jourdan, jorden

Etymology

From Latin jurdanus, unattested outside of England and of uncertain etymology. Usually derived from a clipped form of Jordan bottle, supposedly a bottle of curative water brought back from the River Jordan by Crusaders and pilgrims to the Holy Land, but this seems unsupported in its actual attestations. Its use for chamber pots may derive from the alchemical device having been used to hold urine.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d????dn?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d????dn?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n
• Hyphenation: jor?dan

Noun

jordan (plural jordans)

1. (obsolete) A vessel resembling a retort bulb or Florence flask with a truncated neck and flared mouth, used by medieval doctors and alchemists.
   • 15th c., Sloane MS. 73, p. 133:

     Make a good lute... and þerwiþ daub þi Iordan al aboute... and putte al þi mater in þe Iordan and hange it ouer þe fier by þe necke þ^t þe glas be almoost an hond brede fro þe coolis.

2. (obsolete) A chamber pot.
   • 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, p. 267:

     Iurdone, pyssepotte, iurdanus.

   • a. 1598,, William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry the Fourth, Act II, Scene i:

     2.Car. Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): jordan-pot, see also Thesaurus:chamber pot

Derived terms

• jordan-pot

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Jardon