matere
Middle English
/maˈtɛːr(ə)/, /ˈmaːtər/
noun
Definitions
- Matter or stuff; that which things are composed of:
- A material or substance; something which things are created or made from:
- One of a human body's liquids or fluids; a biofluid:
- A pursuit, occurence, condition, or event, especially when problematic:
- A topic or theme; a area of knowledge or discussion:
- The (usually intrinsic or innate) state or characteristics of something.
- One's motivation, justification, or reasoning for an action.
- Wood or timber, especially when used to stoke a fire.
- (rare) A twig or bough; a portion of a plant or tree.
- (rare) The internal liquids of a plant or tree.
- (rare) A specific, fully-formed object.
Etymology
Borrowed from matere derived from Latin māteria (material, matter, substance, wood, stuff, timber).
Origin
Latin
māteria
Gloss
material, matter, substance, wood, stuff, timber
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antimatter English
- biomatter English
- bymatter English
- mater English
- material English
- matrimony English
- matronymic English
- matter English
- matterative English
- mattereth English
- matterful English
- matterless English
- matterlike English
- matternet English
- mattersome English
- matterwave English
- mattery English
- nonmatter English
- overmatter English
- protomatter English
- starmatter English
- *matrasta Latin
- *matrastra Latin
- *matrīna Latin
- commater, commātrem, commāter Latin
- commātrem Latin
- matercula Latin
- materia Latin
- materiale Latin
- materiamen Latin
- materior Latin
- maternus Latin
- matralis Latin
- matresco Latin
- matricida Latin
- matricidium Latin
- matrimonium Latin
- māter Latin
- māteria Latin
- māteriālis Latin
- māternus Latin
- mate Italian
- matrigna Italian
- madera Spanish, Castilian
- madre Spanish, Castilian
- materia Spanish, Castilian
- -άρχης Ancient Greek
- *méh₂tēr Proto-Indo-European
- matéria Portuguese
- material Middle English
- materialy Middle English
- mater Czech
- marrene Old French
- materie, matiere Old French
- matriarche Old French
- medre Old French
- materie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- materiāls Latvian
- madeira Old Portuguese
- mãy Old Portuguese
- Materi Alemannic German
- *mātēr Proto-Italic
- madera Asturian
- matere xno
- mader Lombard
- *matr[w]éṉa Mozarabic