Mater

English

Etymology 1

From Latin māter (“‘mother’”), partly via late-Middle English matere.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈmeɪtə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmeɪdɚ/, /ˈmɑˌtɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(r)

Noun

Singular Mater

Plural s

Mater (s)

1. (British slang, now chiefly Template:Context 5) 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.”

Etymology 2

mate +‎ -er 

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈmeɪtə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmeɪdɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(r)

Noun

Singular Mater

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Mater ({{{1}}})

1. (biology) Someone or something that mates.

Anagrams

• aemrt,
• METAR
• metra
• tamer
• trema

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ma.te/, SAMPA: /ma.te/

Verb

mater

1. (slang) To ogle, to check out, to watch (eg. an attractive person)

Conjugation

Template:Fr-conj-er

Anagrams

• aemrt,
• trame
• tréma

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Latin

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māter et īnfāns eius (mother and her baby)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Common Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (mat’)), Persian مادر (madar), Mycenaean Greek Template:Linb (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈmaː.ter/

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Noun

māter (genitive mātris); f, third declension

1. mother (female parent)
2. mother (source, origin)
3. matron of a house
4. honorific title
5. woman
6. nurse
7. motherland

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	māter	mātrēs
genitive	mātris	mātrum
dative	mātrī	mātribus
accusative	mātrem	mātrēs
ablative	mātre	mātribus
vocative	māter	mātrēs

Derived terms

alma māter māter lectiōnis mātercula māterfamiliās

māternus mātertera mātrālis

mātrēscō mātricīda mātrimōnium

mātrīx mātrōna mātruēlis

Related terms

māternitās mātrīcālis mātricīdium mātrīcula

mātrimōniālis mātrimus mātrōnālis mātrōnātus

Descendants

Catalan: mare English: mater, matron French: mère Galician: madre Italian: madre

Lombard: [[mader#Template:Lmo|mader]] Novial: matra Occitan: maire Portuguese: madre, mãe Spanish: madre

See also

• mamma
• pater

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Norwegian

Verb

Template:No-verb form

1. present tense of mate.

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mater

1. Template:Sh-form-noun

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Slovak

Etymology

From Common Slavic; cognate with Latin mater and Sanskrit मातृ (mātR)

Noun

mater f.

irregular declension

1. mother

Declension

	Singular	Plural
nominative	mater	matere
genitive	matere	materi
dative	materi	materiam
accusative	mater	matere
vocative	mater	matere
locative	materi	materiach
instrumental	materou	materami

Derived terms

• materčina
• materina dúška
• materinský
• materný
• materský
• materstvo

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