From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/ [maˈð̞e.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ma‧de‧ra

madera f (plural maderes)

1. wood

madera m (invariable)

1. madeira (wine)

• Madera

• damare, damerà

From Latin māteria, from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese madeira.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/

madera f (plural maderas)

1. wood
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49r:

     […] e enbẏo amonte libano .lxxx. mil om̃s q̃ taiaſſen madera. e .lxx. mil maçoneros pora la obra de la piedra ſin los maẏorales q̃ les comendauan q̃ auien a fer.

     [[…] E embió a monte Libano ochaenta mil omnes que tajassen madera, e setaenta mil maçoneros pora la obra de la piedra, sin los mayorales que les comendavan que avíen a fer.]

     […] And he sent to Mount Lebanon eighty thousand men to cut wood and seventy thousand masons for the working of stone, besides the foremen who commanded them what they were to do.

• madero

• Spanish: madera

Inherited from Old Spanish madera, from Latin māteria (compare French matière, Italian materia, Portuguese madeira), from māter (“source”, literally “mother”). Doublet of materia.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdeɾa/ [maˈð̞e.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ma‧de‧ra

madera f (plural maderas)

1. wood
2. wooden plank, board
3. makings

   Synonym: condiciones

   No tiene madera de instigador.

   He hasn't got the makings of an instigator.

• “madera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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