matar

Portuguese

/mɐ.ˈtaɾ/, /ma.ˈta(ʁ)/

verb
Definitions
  • to kill to cause to die
  • (figurative) to kill; to eradicate; to destroy
  • (figurative) to kill to cause extreme pain, distress or exhaustion in
  • (transitive) to kill to write a story that conveys the death of
  • (figurative) to satisfy, to satiate, to quench to fulfil an emotional or physiological need
  • (figurative) to break one's back to make a great effort
  • (colloquial) to spend [a period of time] doing unimportant things
  • (Brazil) to skip not to be present in a class
  • (informal) to solve to find the solution to a mystery
  • (Brazil) to consume something entirely (especially an alcoholic drink); to knock down
  • (sports) to stop a moving ball
  • (cue sports) to pocket to cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table

Etymology

Inherited from Old Portuguese matar inherited from Latin mactō, mactāre, *mattāre derived from Arabic مَاتَ (die).

Origin

Arabic

مَاتَ

Gloss

die

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