materia.
wood (building material), lumber, timber; woody branch/growth/part of tree; material, matter, substance; food/fuel; breeding stock; topic, subject matter; |means, occasion, condition effecting action; latent ability/potential;
Meaning & usage
matter; material; component stuff; substance
timber
source, origin
Where this word comes from
Traditionally derived from māter (“mother, at least in the sense of 'source'”) + -ia, in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”). Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, matter”), introduced by Cicero.
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