materia

Borrowed from Latin materia. Cf. madera.

materia f (plural materies)

1. subject (main topic)
2. material world
3. matter

Internationalism, ultimately from Latin māteria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑteriɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝t̪e̞ˌriɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧te‧ri‧a

materia

1. matter

• aine

• materiaali
• materialismi
• materialisti

• “materia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• maireat

• matera (obsolete)

Borrowed (in this form) from Latin materia.

• IPA^(key): /maˈtɛ.rja/
• Rhymes: -ɛrja
• Hyphenation: ma‧tè‧ria

materia f (plural materie)

1. matter, substance, material, stuff
2. subject-matter, matter, subject, topic

• antimateria

• materiale
• materia prima
• materico

• amartie, ametria, armiate, ramiate, riamate

Borrowed from Latin materia.

materia f (plural materies)

1. matter, material

• māteriēs

Traditionally derived from māter (“mother, at least in the sense of 'source'”) +‎ -ia, in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”).[1] More recently, referred to Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build”). Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, matter”), introduced by Cicero.[2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maːˈte.ri.a/, [mäːˈt̪ɛriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈte.ri.a/, [mäˈt̪ɛːriä]

māteria f (genitive māteriae); first declension

1. matter; material; component stuff; substance
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.31:

     Et vellem, herculēs, māteriam repperīrem aliquam quam deus tantus affluenter indueret.

     And, by Hercules, I would like to find [clothing] material that such a great god could wear in flowing folds.

2. timber

   Synonym: lignum

3. (figurative) source, origin

First-declension noun.

• māterior

• “materia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “materia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• materia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• materia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • my subject grows as I write: materia mihi crescit
    
  • abundance of material: materia rerum et copia uberrima
    
  • abundance of material: infinita et immensa materia
    

Learned borrowing from Latin māteria.

• IPA^(key): /maˈtɛ.rja/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrja
• Syllabification: ma‧te‧ria

materia f

1. (physics) matter

• materia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• materia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

materia f (plural materias)

1. Obsolete spelling of matéria

Borrowed from Latin materia. Doublet of the inherited madera.

• IPA^(key): /maˈteɾja/ [maˈt̪e.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -eɾja
• Syllabification: ma‧te‧ria

materia f (plural materias)

1. (physics) matter (the basic structural component of the universe)
2. subject (topic; particular area of study)

• “materia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Latin materia.

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materia c (uncountable)

1. matter

• antimateria
• material
• materiell

• materia in Svensk ordbok.