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materiem

materiem is a Latin form of materies, meaning “material, matter; timber”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 56 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.24.4: Alii faces atque aridam materiem de muro in aggerem eminus iaciebant, picem reliquasque res, quibus ignis excitari potest, fundebant, ut quo primum curreretur aut cui rei ferretur auxilium vix ratio iniri posset.

Lucan, Civil War 2.8: Materiemque rudem flamma cedente recepit,

All forms of materies (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.