Matter 物质

The fact of the matter is this: the Latin word for "mother," mater, is this word's distant ancestor.Matter一词怎么会出现在这里？事情是这样的，拉丁语中的mater(母亲)一词是matter一词的远祖。

Mater was shaped into materia, meaning "physical substance" or "matter." Materia eventually developed into matter.Mater一词后来演化成materia，即“物质”。而materia一词最终演化成了matter这个词。

Why did mother lead to matter? The connection is uncertain, but perhaps it's because matter is the substance from which something is made; and it is mother from which we all are made。“母亲”和“物质”之间有什么因果关系呢？答案尚不明确。或许因为物质是构成所有事物的成分，也是我们所有人成形之源头吧。