Matter 物質

The fact of the matter is this: the Latin word for "mother," mater, is this word's distant ancestor.Matter一詞怎么會出現在這里？事情是這樣的，拉丁語中的mater(母親)一詞是matter一詞的遠祖。

Mater was shaped into materia, meaning "physical substance" or "matter." Materia eventually developed into matter.Mater一詞后來演化成materia，即“物質”。而materia一詞最終演化成了matter這個詞。

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。“母親”和“物質”之間有什么因果關系呢？答案尚不明確。或許因為物質是構成所有事物的成分，也是我們所有人成形之源頭吧。