madera

madera

See also: Madera

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”).

Noun

madera f (plural maderes)

1. wood

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Italian

Noun

madera m (invariable)

1. madeira (wine)

See also

• Madera

Anagrams

• damare, damerà

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Compare Old Portuguese madeira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/

Noun

madera f (plural maderas)

1. wood
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49r.

     […] e enbẏo amonte libano. lxxx. mil oḿs q́ taiaſſen madera. e .lxx. mil maçoneros pora la obra de la piedra ſin los maẏorales q́ les comendauan q́ auien a fer.

     […] And he sent to Mount Lebanon eighty thousand men to cut wood and seventy thousand masons for the working of stone, besides the foremen who commanded them what they were to do.

Derived terms

• madero

Descendants

• Spanish: madera

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish madera, from Latin māteria (compare French matière, Italian materia, Portuguese madeira), from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Doublet of materia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/ [maˈð̞e.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ma‧de‧ra

Noun

madera f (plural maderas)

1. wood
2. wooden plank, board
3. makings

   No tiene madera de instigador.

   He hasn't got the makings of an instigator.

Derived terms

• amaderado
• enmaderar
• maderar
• maderero
• madero
• tocar madera
• trituradora de madera

 

Related terms

• materia
• material

Further reading

• “madera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014