Madeira

From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.

• IPA^(key): /məˈdɪəɹ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

Madeira

2. An archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.

   Hypernym: Macaronesia

4. The largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island.
6. The largest tributary of the Amazon, running 900 miles from Pando Department, Bolivia through the states of Rondônia and Amazonas, Brazil to its mouth east of Manaus; in full, Madeira River.
8. A city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cincinnati named after landowner John Madeira.
9. A surname.

Madeira (countable and uncountable, plural Madeiras)

1. A type of fortified wine produced on that island.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 280:

     Add to this, Madeira which had twice ripened beneath eastern suns—once in the grape, and once in the wood; and Port whose filmy robe of cobweb had, as old Adrian boasted, outlasted many a silken dress.

• madeira

• Marsala, marsala
• Porto, port, porto
• sherry

• Demaria, Maredia

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”). Doublet of matèria.

Madeira f

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)

   Hypernym: Macaronèsia

2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)

   Hypernym: arxipèlag de Madeira

• arxipèlag de Madeira
• madeira

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmadɛjra]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeira f (relational adjective madeirský)

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)
2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)

• madeira f

• “Madeira”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Madeira”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Madeira”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

< Portuguese Madeira

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdei̯rɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝de̞i̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑdeirɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ma‧dei‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeira

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)
2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”).

• IPA^(key): [maˈdeːʁa]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːʁa
• Hyphenation: Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeira n (proper noun, strong, genitive Madeiras)

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)
2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)

• Madeirer
• madeirisch

• “Madeira” in Duden online
• “Madeira”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Madeira” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”).

• IPA^(key): [mɐdʲɛɪˈrɐ]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeirà f (uncountable) stress pattern 2

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)
2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)
3. Madeira (the largest tributary of the Amazon, running 900 miles from Pando Department, Bolivia through the states of Rondônia and Amazonas, Brazil to its mouth east of Manaus; in full, Madeira River)

• “Madeira”, in Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of common Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, n.d.
• “Madeira (archipelago)” in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)
• “Madeira (river)” in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)

From Portuguese madeira (“wood”).

Madeira

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)
2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)

From Portuguese madeira (“wood”).

Madeira

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)
2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)

• Madeyra (obsolete)

From madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia (“stuff, timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Formal cognates include Spanish madera.

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ, (Portugal) -ɐjɾɐ
• Homophone: madeira
• Hyphenation: Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeira f (demonym madeirense)

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)

   Synonym: Região Autónoma da Madeira

2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)

Madeira m

1. Madeira (the largest tributary of the Amazon, running 900 miles from Pando Department, Bolivia through the states of Rondônia and Amazonas, Brazil to its mouth east of Manaus; in full, Madeira River)

Madeira m (plural Madeiras)

1. ellipsis of vinho da Madeira

• IPA^(key): /maděira/
• Hyphenation: Ma‧de‧i‧ra

Madèira f (Cyrillic spelling Мадѐира)

1. Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)
2. Madeira (the largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island)