madera

From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”).

madera f (plural maderes)

1. wood

madera m (invariable)

1. madeira (wine)

• Madera

• damare, damerà

From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese madeira.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/

madera f (plural maderas)

1. wood
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49r.

     […] e enbẏo amonte libano. lxxx. mil oḿs q́ taiaſſen madera. e .lxx. mil maçoneros pora la obra de la piedra ſin los maẏorales q́ les comendauan q́ 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.

• madero

• Spanish: madera

From Old Spanish madera, from Latin māteria (compare French matière, Italian materia, Portuguese madeira), from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Doublet of materia.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/ [maˈð̞e.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ma‧de‧ra

madera f (plural maderas)

1. wood
2. wooden plank, board
3. makings

   No tiene madera de instigador.

   He hasn't got the makings of an instigator.

• “madera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014