Morpheme
Mat(e)r [Mater, Matr]
Type
free base
Denotation
mother, woman, female parent
Etymology
Latin māter
Evidence
antimaterial, antimateriel, archaeomaterial, archeomaterial, astromaterial, bimaterial, bimatrix, biomaterial, biomatrix, comatrix, cryptomaterial, cytomatrix, ecomaterial, geomaterial, hemimatrix, hypermatrix, immaterial, immaterialism, immaterialist, immateriality, immaterialize, immaterialized, immaterially, immaterialness, mater, materfamilias, materia, material, materialisation, materialise, materialism, materialist, materiality, materialization, materialize, materialized, materializes, materializing, materially, materialness, materials, materiel, materiels, maters, materteral, materterine, matres, matri-, matriarch, matriarchal, matriarchate, matriarchism, matriarchy, matrical, matrice, matricectomy, matricentred, matricentric, matricentricity, matrices, matricial, matrician, matrician, matricians, matricidal, matricidally, matricide, matricity, matriclinous, matricula, matriculae, matriculand, matriculands, matriculant, matriculants, matriculas, matriculate, matriculated, matriculates, matriculates, matriculating, matriculation, matriculator, matrilineal, matrilocal, matrilocality, matrilocally, matrimoney, matrimonial, matrimony, matristic, matristics, matrix, matrixectomy, matrixed, matrixes, matrixial, Matrixism, matrixlike, matrixwise, matroclinous, matron, matrona, matronym, matronymic, metamaterial, micromaterial, multimaterial, multimatrix, nanomaterial, nanomatrix, neuromatrix, nonmaterial, nonmaterialism, nonmaterialist, nonmaterialistic, nonmateriality, nonmaterially, nonmatriculated, nonmatrix, perimatrix, pilomatricoma, pilomatricomas, pilomatrixoma, pilomatrixomas, polymatrix, postmaterial, postmaterialism, postmaterialist, rematriculate, semimatrix, sociomaterial, sociomatrix, submatrix, supermaterial, supermatrix, trimaterial, trimatrix, unmaterial, unmaterialised, unmaterialist, unmaterialistic, unmaterialistically, unmaterialized, unmatriculated
Notes
mater, matrix, mother, and mata are doublets
matron and matrona are doublets
material and materiel are doublets
matrician also on analogy of patrician
matriculant and matriculand are doublets
Latin plural matrices (singular matrix) and English plural matrices (singular matrice) are homophones
Doublet
Matrix, Mother, Mata
See Also
Matern, Madre, Mother, Mata, Matter
