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

Mater (plural Maters or matres)

1. (UK slang, now chiefly archaic, humorous, or sarcastic) Mother.

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

Mater (plural Maters)

1. (biology) Someone or something that mates.

Anagrams

• METAR
• metra
• tamer
• trema

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ma.te/, SAMPA: /ma.te/

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Verb

mater

1. (slang) To ogle, to check out, to watch (eg. 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
past participle		maté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	mate	mates	mate	matons	matez	matent
	imperfect	matais	matais	matait	mations	matiez	mataient
	past historic1	matai	matas	mata	matâmes	matâtes	matèrent
	future	materai	materas	matera	materons	materez	materont
	conditional	materais	materais	materait	materions	materiez	materaient
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	mates	mate	mations	matiez	matent
	imperfect1	matasse	matasses	matât	matassions	matassiez	matassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	mate	—	matons	matez	—
1literary tenses

Anagrams

• marte, trame, tramé, 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 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈmaː.ter/

• Audio (Classical)

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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

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Related terms

See also

māternitās mātrīcālis mātricīdium mātrīcula

mātrimōniālis mātrimus mātrōnālis mātrōnātus

Descendants

See also

Catalan: mare English: mater, matron French: mère (< Old French mere, medre) Galician: madre Italian: madre Lombard: mader

Novial: matra Occitan: maire Portuguese: madre, mãe Siclian: matri Spanish: madre

See also

• mamma
• pater

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Norwegian

Verb

Mater

1. present tense of mate

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mater

1. accusative singular form of mati.

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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