materii
Dictionary entries
- Entry →materies, materiei:
Feminine · Noun · 5th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wood (building material), lumber, timber; woody branch/growth/part of tree;; material, matter, substance; food/fuel; breeding stock; topic, subject matter;; means, occasion, condition effecting action; latent ability/potential;
dat. sg.gen. sg.
Examples
Capitula
Aulus Gellius
"...auctoritate adhibita antiqui medici Hippocratis. XII. De materiis infamibus, quas Graeci adoxous appellant, a Favorino exercendi gratia disputatis..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quoque aliqua nos incommoda ex iis quas finxerimus materiis consequentur, in eo praecipue quod multa in iis relincuntur..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...unumque numen intellegunt: profanos qui deum imagines mortalibus materiis in species hominum effingant; summum illud et aeternum neque..."
