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materias

materias is a Latin form of materia, meaning “material, matter; timber, wood; subject, theme”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Tacitus, Historiae 4.24: … erabant; machinas etiam, insolitum sibi, ausi. nec ulla ipsis sollertia: perfugae captivique docebant struere materias in modum pontis, mox subiectis rotis propellere, ut alii superstantes tamquam ex aggere proeliarentur, pars i …

All forms of materia (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.