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Mater
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mater
mater
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtə/[1]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/[1], /ˈmɑtɚ/[1]
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
mater (plural maters or matres)
- (Britain slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous)[1]Mother.
- 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress, page 100:
- Their maters are all pals of my mater, and I don’t want to get them into trouble for aiding and abetting my little show, if you understand what I mean.
- 1997, Colleen McCullough, Caesar’s Women, page 17:
- “Mater, you look well.” / “I am well. And you,” she said in that dryly prosaic deep voice of hers, “look healed.”
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtə/[2]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/[2]
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
mater (plural maters)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 “mater, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision; March 2009)
- 1 2 3 4 “mater, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft entry; March 2001)
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.te/
Verb
mater
- to get the better of
- to checkmate
- (slang) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
Conjugation
Conjugation of mater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | mater | avoir maté | |||||
| gerund | en matant | en ayant maté | |||||
| present participle | matant /ma.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | maté /ma.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | mate /mat/ |
mates /mat/ |
mate /mat/ |
matons /ma.tɔ̃/ |
matez /ma.te/ |
matent /mat/ |
| imperfect | matais /ma.tɛ/ |
matais /ma.tɛ/ |
matait /ma.tɛ/ |
mations /ma.tjɔ̃/ |
matiez /ma.tje/ |
mataient /ma.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | matai /ma.te/ |
matas /ma.ta/ |
mata /ma.ta/ |
matâmes /ma.tam/ |
matâtes /ma.tat/ |
matèrent /ma.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | materai /ma.tʁe/ |
materas /ma.tʁa/ |
matera /ma.tʁa/ |
materons /ma.tʁɔ̃/ |
materez /ma.tʁe/ |
materont /ma.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | materais /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materais /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materait /ma.tʁɛ/ |
materions /ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
materiez /ma.tə.ʁje/ |
materaient /ma.tʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | mate /mat/ |
mates /mat/ |
mate /mat/ |
mations /ma.tjɔ̃/ |
matiez /ma.tje/ |
matent /mat/ |
| imperfect1 |
matasse /ma.tas/ |
matasses /ma.tas/ |
matât /ma.ta/ |
matassions /ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
matassiez /ma.ta.sje/ |
matassent /ma.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | mate /mat/ |
— | matons /ma.tɔ̃/ |
matez /ma.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Proto-Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (matʹ)), Persian مادر (mâdar), Mycenaean Greek 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.ter/
Noun
māter f (genitive mātris); third declension
- mother (female parent)
- mother (source, origin)
- matron of a house
- honorific title
- woman
- nurse
- motherland
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | māter | mātrēs |
| genitive | mātris | mātrum |
| dative | mātrī | mātribus |
| accusative | mātrem | mātrēs |
| ablative | mātre | mātribus |
| vocative | māter | mātrēs |
Derived terms
Terms derived from mater
Related terms
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants
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See also
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
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus
- son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus
Slovak
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *mati; cognate with Latin māter and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).
Noun
mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, declension pattern of dlaň)
Declension
Declension of mater
Derived terms
- materčina
- materina dúška
- materinský
- materný
- materský
- materstvo