mat – English noun declension

English noun forms of mat

Noun: mat
Singularmat
Pluralmats

Sample Sentences

  • Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.
  • They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
  • The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.
  • a mat of weeds
  • But to return to where we left her, I see her still, propped up in a kind of stupor against one of the walls in which this wretched edifice abounds, her long grey greasy hair framing in its cowl of scrofulous mats a face where pallor, languor, hunger, acne, recent dirt, immemorial chagrin and surplus hair seemed to dispute the mastery. [1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:]
  • and now only a sord of Mallards drifted through the dense mats of New Zealand pigmyweed that coated the surface of the water. [2018, Steve Burrows, A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery, Oneworld Publications:]
  • Iceland moss growing in a mat
  • The fad for blaming all mass extinctions (such as happened at the end of the Cretaceous when the dinosaurs vanished) on impacts of objects from space was extended to the Pleistocene in 2007. That year a group of scientists proposed that the North American extinctions were due to a comet or meteorite impact over the Carolinas, near the beginning of the Younger Dryas event, about 12,900 years ago. The original evidence for this supposed impact was a "black mat" of organic material in many Clovis sites, plus microscopic nano-diamonds in deep-sea cores, and rare Platinum group metals in Greenland ice cores from around 12,900 years ago. [2016 November 15, Donald R. Prothero, The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals, page 222:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Old English meatte
3. Middle English matte
4. English mat
5. Inherited from Middle English matte (“mat”), from Old English meatte (“mat”), from Late Latin matta (“mat made of rushes”), from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)).
6. Cognate with German Matte (“mat”), Danish måtte (“mat”), Faroese and Icelandic motta (“rug, mat”), Norwegian matte (“mat, rug”), Swedish matta (“carpet, rug, mat”). See: Middle English Nouns 'matte', Middle English Nouns 'matte', Old English Nouns 'meatte', German Nouns 'Matte', Danish Nouns 'måtte', Icelandic Nouns 'motta', Swedish Nouns 'matta'.

Verbs referencing "mat"

Dutch Nouns mat, Danish Nouns måtte, Zulu Nouns umata.