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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1083.māteria on page 1083
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māteria material
māteria is a Latin Noun that primarily means material.
Definitions for māteria
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
material, matter
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Wood as building material, timber.
- 2
The woody part of a tree (as opp. to roots, bark, fruit, etc.). (b) a woody branch or growth.
- 3
Any substance of which a physical object is made or composed, material. (b) (phil.) the basic substance of the universe, matter. (c) the material from which living things grow, nutriment, food. (d) fuel for a fire; (cf. sense 1). (e) the stock from which animals are bred.
Sentences with māteria
Latin to English
Materiam superabat opus.Compare The workmanship surpassed the material.
Neque materia multitudo arbor deficio possum.Compare Nor could timber fail by reason of the great number of trees.
Natura materiae doctrinae est; haec fingit, illa fingitur. Compare Nature is the raw material for education; the one forms, the other is formed
Nihil ars since materia, materiae etiam sine arte pretium est, ars summa materia uptima melior.Compare Without material art can do nothing; material without art does possess a certain value, while the perfection of art is better than the best material.
Declension table for māteria
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | māteria | māteriae |
| Gen. | māteriae / -āī | māteriārum |
| Dat. | māteriae | māteriīs |
| Acc. | māteriam | māteriās |
| Abl. | māteriā | māteriīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 480.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1083.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 124.
Bibliography
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "māteria, māteriae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 27, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/materia-materiae.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 480.on page 480
