mateola

Diminutive of an unattested noun *matea (“hoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *mot-(i-) (“club, hoe”), perhaps an extension of *met- (“to cut (by measure”). Compare matia (“club, mace”); outside of Italic, cognate to Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock”), Proto-Slavic *motyka (“hoe”), Sanskrit मत्य (matya, “club, harrow”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maˈte.o.la/, [mäˈt̪eɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈte.o.la/, [mäˈt̪ɛːolä]

mateola f (genitive mateolae); first declension

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. an agricultural implement
   2. a kind of mallet (hammer)
   3. beetle (heavy weight, with a handle or stock, used for driving wedges or pegs, ramming down paving stones, etc.)

First-declension noun.

• Italian: mazzuola
• Occitan: maçòla

• matia

• “matĕŏla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mateola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mateola”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly