different between matters vs mater

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæt?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæt?z/
• Hyphenation: mat?ters

Noun

matters

1. plural of matter

Verb

matters

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of matter

   Nothing really matters.

   But it matters to me.

Anagrams

• s'matter, smatter

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