materialis Latin · revision 4190

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Tertullian|origins=la māteria}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [maː.tɛ.riˈaː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ma.te.riˈaː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''māteriālis''' (neuter māteriāle); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|māteria|-ālis|t1=matter, material]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) ''Māteria'' is from [[mater|alt=māter]] “mother”, and in philosophy it rendered Greek [[grc|ὕλη|tr=húlē]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Tertullian.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates him about 160–220 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD gives it the sense “concerned with subject matter”.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS) Lewis & Short call it post-classical in the sense “of matter, material”, as Macrobius' material influence and Ambrose.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) The adverb ''materialiter'' meant “materially” or “according to the occasion”, as in Sidonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Latin, and in scholastic philosophy, it meant made of matter, earthly and worldly, as opposed to spiritual, also man-made, and in medicine physical or organic.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010) Logicians spoke of ''suppositio materialis'', a word taken only as letters or sounds.^(Etymonline) English ''material'' is recorded in the mid-14th century as a term of scholastic philosophy and theology.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st half of the 5th century AD – Macrobius uses it of material influence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''material'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Concerned with subject matter.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Of [[m|en|matter]], [[m|en|material]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Earthly, worldly; physical.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[materia]]

+ * [[en|material]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}