matte

See also: Matte, matté, mätte, måtte, and maťte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (General American):

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• Homophones: mat, Matt
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

matte (plural mattes)

1. (art, photography) A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

   Synonyms: mat, matting, passe-partout

   The image is a perfect square of 8 cm (with white matte border the total dimensions are 14 cm tall by 11 cm wide).

2. (film) A background, often painted or created with computers

   Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.

3. (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
4. An instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface.

Derived terms

• closed matte
• hard matte
• open matte
• soft matte

Translations

decorative border around a picture

• Finnish: passepartout (fi), kehyskartonki, kehyspahvi, aukkopahvi, paspartuu, paspartuuri
• German: Passepartout (de) n
• Hungarian: paszpartu (hu)
• Macedonian: паспарту n (paspartu)
• Portuguese: passe-partout m
• Russian: паспарту́ (ru) n (paspartú)

film: type of painted background

• Finnish: mattamaalaus

metal sulfide phase

• Finnish: metallikivi
• Japanese: 鈹 (ja) (かわ, kawa)

Adjective

matte (comparative more matte, superlative most matte)

1. (American spelling) Dull; not reflective of light.

   Synonyms: (UK) matt, flat; see also Thesaurus:dim

   Antonym: glossy

   Flat or matte paint allows a deep color expression on the walls while also hiding flaws that may be inherent on the painted surface.

   a matte lipstick

Derived terms

• demi-matte

Translations

not reflective of light

• Basque: mate (eu)
• Belarusian: ма́тавы (mátavy)
• Bulgarian: ма́тов (bg) (mátov)
• Catalan: mat (ca)
• Czech: matný (cs) m
• Danish: mat (da)
• Dutch: mat (nl)
• Finnish: himmeä (fi), kiilloton (fi), matta (fi)
• French: mat (fr) m, mate (fr) f
• German: matt (de)
• Irish: neamhlonrach
• Italian: opaco (it) m
• Macedonian: мат n (mat)
• Māori: pīatakore
• Persian: مات (fa) (mât)
• Polish: matowy (pl)
• Portuguese: mate (pt) m
• Romanian: mat (ro)
• Russian: ма́товый (ru) (mátovyj)
• Slovene: mat (sl), matiran
• Spanish: mate (es)
• Swedish: matt (sv), opak (sv)
• Turkish: donuk (tr), mat (tr), opak (tr)
• Ukrainian: ма́товий (mátovyj)

Verb

matte (third-person singular simple present mattes, present participle matting, simple past and past participle matted)

1. (transitive) To produce a dull, lustreless surface on (metal).

Further reading

• matte (metallurgy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mat (picture framing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tatem

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

matte

1. inflection of mat:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Verb

matte

1. inflection of matten:
   1. singular past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular past/present subjunctive

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Verb

matte

1. inflection of matter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -atə

Adjective

matte

1. inflection of matt:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat.te/
• Rhymes: -atte
• Hyphenation: màt‧te

Adjective

matte pl

1. plural of matta

Noun

matte f

1. plural of matta

Anagrams

• metta

Japanese

Romanization

matte

1. Rōmaji transcription of まって

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mat

Etymology

From Old English meatte, meatta, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat(ə)/

Noun

matte (plural mattes or matten)

1. mat (piece of coarse material)
2. (rare) A coarse pad for a bed.

Descendants

• English: mat (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: mat

References

• “matte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk matte, from Middle Low German matte, from Latin matta. Displaced Danish måtte.

Noun

matte f or m (definite singular matta or matten, indefinite plural matter, definite plural mattene)

1. a mat, rug

Usage notes

• One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing (or at least roughly equally common).

Derived terms

• dørmatte
• musematte

Etymology 2

Clipping of matematikk.

Noun

matte m (definite singular matten)

1. maths, math (mathematics)

   Favorittfaget mitt på skolen er matte.

   My favourite subject in school is maths.

Etymology 3

Equivalent to matt +‎ -e.

Adjective

matte

1. inflection of matt:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Verb

matte (present tense matter, past tense matta or mattet, past participle matta or mattet)

1. (chess) to deliver a checkmate
2. to make something dull, matt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

matte

1. inflection of matt:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Etymology 2

Noun

matte f (definite singular matta, indefinite plural matter, definite plural mattene)

1. a mat or rug

Derived terms

• dørmatte

Etymology 3

Noun

matte m (definite singular matten)

1. short form of "matematikk", mathematics, maths (UK), math (US)

Etymology 4

Verb

matte

1. to make something dull, matt

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀫𑀢𑁆𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• मत्ते (Devanagari script)
• মত্তে (Bengali script)
• මත‍්තෙ (Sinhalese script)
• မတ္တေ or မတ်တေ (Burmese script)
• มตฺเต or มัตเต (Thai script)
• ᨾᨲ᩠ᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ມຕ຺ເຕ or ມັຕເຕ (Lao script)
• មត្តេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄖𑄴𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

matte

1. inflection of matta (“intoxicated”):
   1. locative singular masculine/neuter
   2. accusative plural masculine
   3. vocative singular feminine

Portuguese

Verb

matte

1. inflection of mattar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Abbreviation of matmor.

Noun

matte c

2. female owner of a pet

   Coordinate term: husse

   Ja, var är matte? Var är matte?

   Yes, where is mommy? Where is mommy?

Declension

Declension of matte

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	matte	mattes
	definite	matten	mattens
plural	indefinite	mattar	mattars
	definite	mattarna	mattarnas

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of matematik.

Noun

matte c

2. (uncountable, colloquial) maths, math

   Är du klar med matten tills i morgon?

   Are you done with the math for tomorrow?

   Hon ville inte sitta och räkna matte.

   She did not want to sit and do maths.

Declension

Declension of matte

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	matte	mattes
	definite	matten	mattens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

matte

1. definite natural masculine singular of matt

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

matte c

2. alternative spelling of mate

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

matte c

1. 16th–17th century spelling of matta

References

• “matte”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• metat, temat