# materia
## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin māteria. Cf. madera.

### Noun

materia f (plural materies)
* subject (main topic)
* material world
* matter

## Finnish
### Etymology

Internationalism, ultimately from Latin māteria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑteriɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝t̪e̞ˌriɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -iɑ
* Hyphenation: ma‧te‧ria

### Noun

materia
* matter

#### Declension

Possessive forms of materia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
materiani
materiani
accusative
nom.
materiani
materiani
gen.
materiani
genitive
materiani
materioideni materioitteni materiaini $^{rare}$
partitive
materiaani
materioitani
inessive
materiassani
materioissani
elative
materiastani
materioistani
illative
materiaani
materioihini
adessive
materiallani
materioillani
ablative
materialtani
materioiltani
allative
materialleni
materioilleni
essive
materianani
materioinani
translative
materiakseni
materioikseni
abessive
materiattani
materioittani
instructive
comitative
—materioineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
materiasi
materiasi
accusative
nom.
materiasi
materiasi
gen.
materiasi
genitive
materiasi
materioidesi materioittesi materiaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
materiaasi
materioitasi
inessive
materiassasi
materioissasi
elative
materiastasi
materioistasi
illative
materiaasi
materioihisi
adessive
materiallasi
materioillasi
ablative
materialtasi
materioiltasi
allative
materiallesi
materioillesi
essive
materianasi
materioinasi
translative
materiaksesi
materioiksesi
abessive
materiattasi
materioittasi
instructive
comitative
—materioinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
materiamme
materiamme
accusative
nom.
materiamme
materiamme
gen.
materiamme
genitive
materiamme
materioidemme materioittemme materiaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
materiaamme
materioitamme
inessive
materiassamme
materioissamme
elative
materiastamme
materioistamme
illative
materiaamme
materioihimme
adessive
materiallamme
materioillamme
ablative
materialtamme
materioiltamme
allative
materiallemme
materioillemme
essive
materianamme
materioinamme
translative
materiaksemme
materioiksemme
abessive
materiattamme
materioittamme
instructive
comitative
—materioinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
materianne
materianne
accusative
nom.
materianne
materianne
gen.
materianne
genitive
materianne
materioidenne materioittenne materiainne $^{rare}$
partitive
materiaanne
materioitanne
inessive
materiassanne
materioissanne
elative
materiastanne
materioistanne
illative
materiaanne
materioihinne
adessive
materiallanne
materioillanne
ablative
materialtanne
materioiltanne
allative
materiallenne
materioillenne
essive
materiananne
materioinanne
translative
materiaksenne
materioiksenne
abessive
materiattanne
materioittanne
instructive
comitative
—materioinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
materiansa
materiansa
accusative
nom.
materiansa
materiansa
gen.
materiansa
genitive
materiansa
materioidensa materioittensa materiainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
materiaansa
materioitaan materioitansa
inessive
materiassaan materiassansa
materioissaan materioissansa
elative
materiastaan materiastansa
materioistaan materioistansa
illative
materiaansa
materioihinsa
adessive
materiallaan materiallansa
materioillaan materioillansa
ablative
materialtaan materialtansa
materioiltaan materioiltansa
allative
materialleen materiallensa
materioilleen materioillensa
essive
materianaan materianansa
materioinaan materioinansa
translative
materiakseen materiaksensa
materioikseen materioiksensa
abessive
materiattaan materiattansa
materioittaan materioittansa
instructive
comitative
—materioineen materioinensa :

#### Synonyms

* aine

#### Derived terms

* antimateria

#### Related terms

* materiaali
* materialismi
* materialisti

### Further reading

* “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

### Anagrams

* maireat

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* matera (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed (in this form) from Latin māteria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtɛ.rja/
* Rhymes: -ɛrja
* Hyphenation: ma‧tè‧ria

### Noun

materia f (plural materie)
* matter, substance, material, stuff
* subject-matter, matter, subject, topic

#### Antonyms

* antimateria

#### Related terms

* materiale
* materia prima
* materico

### Anagrams

* amartie, ametria, armiate, ramiate, riamate

## Ladin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin māteria.

### Noun

materia f (plural materies)
* matter, material

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* māteriēs

### Etymology

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”). Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, matter”), introduced by Cicero.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /maːˈte.ri.a/, [mäːˈt̪ɛriä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /maˈte.ri.a/, [mäˈt̪ɛːriä]

### Noun

māteria f (genitive māteriae); first declension
* 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.
* timber
    Synonym: lignum
* (figurative) source, origin

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* māterior

#### Descendants

* Asturian: madera, materia
* → Franco-Provençal: matièri
* → Old French: matere
** French: matière
** → Middle Dutch: materie
*** Dutch: materie
**** Negerhollands: materie, matering
**** → Indonesian: materi
** → Middle English: matere
*** English: matter
*** Scots: matter
* → German: Materie
* Hunsrik: Materje
* → Italian: materia
* Old Francoprovençal: maieiri
* Old Galician-Portuguese: madeira
** Fala: madeira, maeira, meira
** Galician: madeira
** Portuguese: madeira
* → Portuguese: matéria (learned)
* → Romanian: materie
* → Russian: мате́рия (matérija), мате́рія (matérija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
** → Kazakh: материя (materiä)
* Sicilian: matera, matèria
* Old Spanish: madera
** Spanish: madera
* → Spanish: materia (learned)
* → Swedish: materia
* → Turkish: öğe (calque)

### References

* “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
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 367
* ↑ A. Preus, Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy 2007, s.v. matter

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin māteria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈtɛ.rja/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛrja
* Syllabification: ma‧te‧ria

### Noun

materia f
* (physics) matter

#### Derived terms

* antymateria

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Noun

materia f (plural materias)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of matéria.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin māteria. Doublet of the inherited madera.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈteɾja/ [maˈt̪e.ɾja]
* Rhymes: -eɾja
* Syllabification: ma‧te‧ria

### Noun

materia f (plural materias)
* (physics) matter (the basic structural component of the universe)
* subject (topic; particular area of study)
    Synonym: sujeto

#### Derived terms

* antimateria
* en materia de
* entrar en materia
* materia blanca
* materia de Estado
* materia del sacramento
* materia fecal
* materia gris
* materia oscura
* materia prima
* nombre de materia

#### Related terms

* material

### Further reading

* “materia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin māteria.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Gotland):(file)

### Noun

materia c (uncountable)
* matter

#### Related terms

* antimateria
* material
* materiell

### Further reading

* materia in Svensk ordbok.