Etymology

materia

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Today it means: The physical substances which create the natural world: matter, materials, substance, etc. Full definition →

Latin māteria
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed frommāteria“matter, the material world”
  2. English todaymateria

Borrowed from Latin māteria (“matter, the material world”).

Words from the same roots

Latinmāteria all →

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