Madeira

From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.

• IPA^(key): /məˈdɪəɹ.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

Madeira

1. An island in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.

   Hypernym: Macaronesia

2. A river in Amazonas, Brazil, a tributary of the Amazon.
3. A city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, named after landowner John Madeira.
4. A surname.

Madeira (countable and uncountable, plural Madeiras)

1. A type of fortified wine produced on that island.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 280:

     Add to this, Madeira which had twice ripened beneath eastern suns—once in the grape, and once in the wood; and Port whose filmy robe of cobweb had, as old Adrian boasted, outlasted many a silken dress.

• madeira

• Marsala, marsala
• Porto, port, porto
• sherry

• Demaria, Maredia

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”). Doublet of matèria.

Madeira f

1. Madeira (an archipelago and autonomous region of Portugal, located in Atlantic Ocean)

   Hypernym: Macaronèsia

2. Madeira (an island in Madeira)

   Hypernym: arxipèlag de Madeira

• arxipèlag de Madeira
• madeira

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmadɛjra]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeira f (related adjective madeirský)

1. Madeira (an archipelago and autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic)
2. Madeira (the largest island of the Madeira Archipelago)

• madeira f

• “Madeira”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Madeira”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Madeira”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”).

• IPA^(key): [maˈdeːʁa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːʁa
• Hyphenation: Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeira n (proper noun, strong, genitive Madeiras)

1. Madeira (an archipelago and autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic)
2. Madeira (the largest island of the Madeira Archipelago)

• Madeirer
• madeirisch

• “Madeira” in Duden online
• “Madeira”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Madeira” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”).

• IPA^(key): [mɐdʲɛɪˈrɐ]
• Hyphenation: Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeirà f (uncountable) stress pattern 2

1. Madeira (an archipelago and autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic)
2. Madeira (the largest island of the Madeira Archipelago)
3. Madeira (a river in Amazonas, Brazil, a tributary of the Amazon).

• “Madeira”, in Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of common Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, n.d.
• Madeira (archipelago) in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)
• Madeira (river) in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)

From Portuguese madeira (“wood”).

Madeira

1. Madeira (island and autonomous region of Portugal)

From Portuguese madeira (“wood”).

Madeira

1. Madeira (as above)

• Madeyra (obsolete)

From madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia (“stuff, timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Formal cognates include Spanish madera.

• Rhymes: -ejɾɐ, (Portugal) -ɐjɾɐ
• Homophone: madeira
• Hyphenation: Ma‧dei‧ra

Madeira f

1. Madeira (an archipelago and autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic)

   Synonym: Região Autónoma da Madeira

2. Madeira (the largest island of the Madeira Archipelago)

• madeirense

Madeira m (plural Madeiras)

1. Ellipsis of vinho da Madeira.

• IPA^(key): /maděira/
• Hyphenation: Ma‧de‧i‧ra

Madèira f (Cyrillic spelling Мадѐира)

1. Madeira