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発音

• (RP) IPA: /ˈmeɪtə/^[1]
• (米国用法) IPA: /ˈmeɪdɚ/^[1], /ˈmɑˌtɚ/^[1]
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(r)

名詞

mater (複数形 maters または matres)

1. (英国用法 slang, now chiefly archaic, humorous, または ironic)^[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.”

語源 2

mate +‎ -er ^[2]

発音

• (RP) IPA: /ˈmeɪtə/^[2]
• (米国用法) IPA: /ˈmeɪdɚ/^[2]
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(r)

名詞

mater (複数形 maters)

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

参照

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} “mater, n.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; Mar. 2009]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} “mater, n.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft entry; Mar. 2001]

アナグラム

• METAR
• metra
• tamer
• trema

Latin

māter et īnfāns eius (mother かつ her baby)

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Cognates include Common Slavic *mati (thence Russian мать (mat’)), Persian مادر (madar), Mycenaean Greek ������ (ma-te-re), and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).

発音

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈmaː.ter/

名詞

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

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

参考

• mamma
• pater