mater

From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere.[1] Doublet of mother.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtə/[1]

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/[1], /ˈmɑtɚ/[1]
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

mater (plural maters or matres)

1. (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous)[1] Mother.

   Coordinate term: pater

   • 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.

   • 1985, Mick Hucknall; Neil Moss (lyrics and music), “Holding Back the Years”, in Picture Book, performed by Simply Red:

     Strangled by the wishes of pater / Hoping for the arms of mater / Get to me the sooner or later

   • 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.”

2. (anatomy) A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.

mate +‎ -er [2]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtə/[2]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/[2]
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

mater (plural maters)

1. (biology)[2] Someone or something that mates.

See 'mater.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪtɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

mater (plural maters)

1. Alternative form of 'mater (“tomato”)
   • 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover, →ISBN, page 28:

     "A mater sandwich would be better." Trixie said, "but I'll take it if that's all you got." As if we were woefully deprived of food. So Trixie had a tomato sandwich for lunch, carefully prepared by Lillian but for which she received no thanks.

• METAR, Marte, armet, metra, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, tréma

From Latin māter.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmatɛr]
• Rhymes: -atɛr

mater f

1. title of an abbess

• matka

• mater in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• mater in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• mater in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

• IPA^(key): /ma.te/

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From mat (“mate”) +‎ -er.

mater

1. (transitive) to checkmate
2. (figuratively, transitive) to suppress, quell (a revolution, person, insurrection)
   • 1997, “L'Empire du côté obscur”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:

     Adapter ma technique à la manière du caméléon / Sans pitié pour mater la rébellion

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Uncertain, perhaps from Spanish mata (“bush”).[1]

mater

1. (slang, transitive) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)
   • 1997, “Demain, c’est loin”, in L'École du micro d'argent, performed by IAM:

     Mater les photos, majeur aujourd'hui, poto / Pas mal d'amis se sont déjà tués en moto

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• “mater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• marte, trame, tramé, tréma

From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognate with Old English mōdor (English mother).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ter/, [ˈmäːt̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ter/, [ˈmäːt̪er]

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• Hyphenation: ma‧ter

māter f (genitive mātris); third declension

1. mother (female parent)

   Nē, māter; suam.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. mother (source, origin)
3. matron of a house
4. honorific title
5. woman
6. nurse
7. motherland
8. maternity, motherhood

Third-declension noun.

• (mother): genetrīx

• mamma
• pater

• “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
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • son of such and such a father, mother: patre, (e) matre natus
    

mater (plural maters)

1. Alternative form of matere
   • 1470–1483 (date produced)​, Thomas Malory, “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, verso, lines 15–18:

     Than ſpake ẜ Gawayne And ſeyde brothir · ẜ Aggravayne I pray you and charge you meve no ſuch · maters no more a fore me fro wyte you well I woll nat be of youre counceyle //

     Then spoke Sir Gawain, and said, “Brother, Sir Agrivain, I pray you and charge you move not such matters any more before me, for be ye assured I will not be of your counsel.”

mater

1. to kill

mater

1. present of mate

mater

1. accusative singular of mati
2. (by extension, regional) Alternative form of mati

• trema, metra

From Proto-Slavic *mati.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmacɛr/

mater f (genitive singular matere, nominative plural matere, genitive plural materí, declension pattern of dlaň)

1. mother

• mater in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

From English matter.

mater m (plural materion)

1. matter, affair

   Synonyms: neges, busnes

2. substance

   Synonyms: sylwedd, defnydd

• gwerthfater m (“antimatter”)
• mater tywyll m (“dark matter”)
• materol (“material”, adjective)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mater”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies