mater

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

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

2. (anatomy) Either of the dura mater and 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, armet, metra, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, tréma

Latin mater

• 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/

• Audio (Paris)

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mater

1. to get the better of
2. to checkmate
3. (slang) to ogle, to check out, to watch (e.g. an attractive person)

• “mater” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• marte, trame, tramé, tréma

From Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Proto-Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (matʹ)), Persian مادر‎ (mâdar), Mycenaean Greek 𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ter/, [ˈmaː.tɛr]

• Audio (Classical)

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māter f (genitive mātris); third declension

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

Third declension.

• 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

1. Alternative form of matere

mater

1. present of mate

mater

1. accusative singular of mati

• trema, metra

From Proto-Slavic *mati; cognate with Latin māter and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).

• 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 korpus.sk