material
Middle English
/matɛriˈaːl/
adj
Definitions
- Extant in matter or having physical form; material.
- Not supernatural or spiritual; regular, conventional, worldly.
- Being the physical attributes or properties of a thing.
- Affecting or modifying physical matter or attributes.
- (rare) Prominent, significant.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin māteriālis affix from Middle English matere.
Origin
Middle English
matere
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- active material English
- antimaterial English
- archaeomaterial English
- archeomaterial English
- astromaterial English
- bimaterial English
- biomaterial English
- commaterial English
- cryptomaterial English
- geomaterial English
- immaterial English
- material English
- materialisation English
- materialise English
- materialism English
- materialist English
- materialistic English
- materiality English
- materialization English
- materialize English
- materially English
- materialness English
- matter English
- metamaterial English
- micromaterial English
- multimaterial English
- nanomaterial English
- nonmaterial English
- postmaterial English
- sociomaterial English
- supermaterial English
- trimaterial English
- unmaterial English
- materiaali Finnish
- māter Latin
- māteria Latin
- māteriālis Latin
- māterĭa Latin
- Material German
- matière French
- matériel French
- материа́л Russian
- material Spanish, Castilian
- material Portuguese
- matere Middle English
- materialy Middle English
- materio Ido
- matere xno