matar

Betekenis (English)

1. (transitive) to kill
2. (pronominal) to accidentally kill oneself
3. (pronominal) to commit suicide
4. (figuratively, pronominal) to kill oneself (exert oneself)
5. (transitive) to extinguish, turn off, quench

Met koppelteken als

ma‧tar

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/maˈtaɾ/

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Latijn: mactāre

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese matar, most likely from Latin mactāre (through a Vulgar Latin root *mattāre). Alternatively, possibly from Vulgar Latin *mattāre, from Late Latin mattus (“drunk, intoxicated”), related to madidus.