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Materia

Noun

Sense 1:

A substance from which something is made or composed.

Sample Sentence: The artist used a variety of different materias, such as clay, wood, and metal, to create the sculpture.

Sense 2:

Raw or unprocessed material.

Sample Sentence: The factory ordered a large shipment of materia to use in the production of their new product line.

Adjective

Sense 1:

Pertaining to matter or substance.

Sample Sentence: The chemistry class conducted experiments to study the materia properties of different elements.

Latin Phrase

In Latin, "materia" means "matter" or "material".

Sample Sentence: The phrase "ex nihilo, nihil fit" translates to "out of nothing, nothing comes" in materia terms.