Mater

Mater is a formal Latin term for mother and may refer to:

Latin

• mater mother

Places

• Mater, Belgium, a village near Oudenaarde

Health care

Australia

• Mater Health Services, Brisbane, Australia
• Mater Health Services North Queensland, which incorporates:
  • Mater Hospital, Townsville, Queensland,
  • Mater Women's and Children's Hospital
• Calvary Mater Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales

UK and Ireland

• Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
• Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Other uses

• Mater (Cars), a character in the animated film Cars
• Mater, an album by the Slovak composer Vladimír Godár featuring singer Iva Bittová
• Mater, a major part of an astrolabe
• MTP-II MATER, acronym of the EU-project Mediterranean Targeted Project II (Mass Transfer and Ecosystem Response)
• M.A.T.E.R., a football (soccer) club in Rome

See also

• Juris Māters (1845–1885), Latvian writer and journalist
• Dura mater, the outermost layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord in humans
• Pia mater, the innermost layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord in humans