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material
material /ma.te.riˈal/
noun#1706 most common
Also: fabric, material goods (adjective sense)
Example sentences
Acest material este moale.
This material is soft.
Cumpăr material pentru o rochie nouă.
I am buying material for a new dress.
Profesorul a adus material didactic la clasă.
The teacher brought teaching material to class.
Fabrica produce materiale de construcție de calitate.
The factory produces high-quality construction materials.
Bunurile materiale nu garantează fericirea.
Material goods do not guarantee happiness.
Proprietățile fizice ale materialelor influențează durabilitatea structurilor construite.
The physical properties of materials influence the durability of built structures.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | material | materiale |
| Genitive | materialului | materialelor |
| Accusative | material | materiale |
| Vocative | material | materiale |
Word family
materiematter, subject matter
materialistmaterialist
materialismmaterialism
materializarematerialization
imaterialimmaterial
Etymology
Romanian "material" comes from French "matériel" and Latin "materialis", an adjective built on Latin "materia", meaning matter or timber. The word entered Romanian in the 19th century as part of a wave of French and Latin borrowings that modernized the vocabulary. It kept both its noun sense, a substance or fabric used to make something, and its adjective sense, relating to physical matter rather than the spiritual or abstract.
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