Noun: madera
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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[…] e enbẏo amonte libano .lxxx. mil om̃s q̃ taiaſſen madera. e .lxx. mil maçoneros pora la obra de la piedra ſin los maẏorales q̃ les comendauan q̃ auien a fer. ([…] And he sent to Mount Lebanon eighty thousand men to cut wood and seventy thousand masons for the working of stone, besides the foremen who commanded them what they were to do.) [c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49r:]
Nouns inflected like madera
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese madeira. See: Latin Nouns '
māteria'.
Verbs referencing "madera"
Spanish Nouns
madera.
Translations