matus
Estonian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑtus/, [ˈmɑtˑus]
- Rhymes: -ɑtus
- Hyphenation: ma‧tus
Noun
matus (genitive matuse, partitive matust)
Declension
| Declension of matus (ÕS type 9/katus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | matus | matused | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | matuse | ||
| genitive | matuste | ||
| partitive | matust | matuseid | |
| illative | matusesse | matustesse matuseisse | |
| inessive | matuses | matustes matuseis | |
| elative | matusest | matustest matuseist | |
| allative | matusele | matustele matuseile | |
| adessive | matusel | matustel matuseil | |
| ablative | matuselt | matustelt matuseilt | |
| translative | matuseks | matusteks matuseiks | |
| terminative | matuseni | matusteni | |
| essive | matusena | matustena | |
| abessive | matuseta | matusteta | |
| comitative | matusega | matustega | |
Further reading
- “matus”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “matus”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- matus in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Latin
Etymology
Another writing of Late Latin mattus (“drunk, intoxicated”), itself either from a contraction of a form *madĭtus (as a past participle of madeō), or madidus (“drunk, tipsy”). Cognate to French mat (“matte, pale”).
Adjective
mātus (feminine māta, neuter mātum); first/second-declension adjective
- alternative form of mattus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | mātus | māta | mātum | mātī | mātae | māta | |
| genitive | mātī | mātae | mātī | mātōrum | mātārum | mātōrum | |
| dative | mātō | mātae | mātō | mātīs | |||
| accusative | mātum | mātam | mātum | mātōs | mātās | māta | |
| ablative | mātō | mātā | mātō | mātīs | |||
| vocative | māte | māta | mātum | mātī | mātae | māta | |
Latvian
Noun
matus m
- accusative plural of mats (“hair”)
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
Noun
matùs
- accusative plural of mãtas (“measure”)