mazza

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English

Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

Noun

mazza (countable and uncountable, plural mazzas)

  1. (MLE) Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
    • 2018, AM Skengdo (lyrics and music), “Diligent Members” (track 4), in Greener on the Other Side, performed by Skengdo x AM:
      Must have thought I was one of the paigons / Left a trace and my yard got raided / It's a mazza / He was talking tough 'till I chased man down with a ladder

References

Etymology 2

See meze.

Noun

mazza

  1. Alternative form of meze.

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mattea (compare French masse, Spanish maza, Portuguese maça), probably vulgarly formed from Latin mateola (“hoe”). Cf. also Latin matia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmat.t͡sa/
  • Rhymes: -attsa
  • Hyphenation: màz‧za

Noun

mazza f (plural mazze)

  1. baton
  2. club (weapon)
  3. mace (ceremonial weapon)
  4. (sports) bat
  5. sledgehammer
  6. maul
  7. mallet
  8. (vulgar) penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cazzo
  9. priest (tool for killing fishes)

Further reading

  • mazza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mazza in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Maltese

Root
m-z-z
2 terms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mazza and/or Sicilian mazza, from Vulgar Latin *mattea.

Pronunciation

Noun

mazza f (plural mazez)

  1. mace

Sicilian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mattea, probably vulgarly formed from Latin mateola.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmat.tsa/
  • Hyphenation: màz‧za

Noun

mazza f (plural mazzi)

  1. club
  2. clod, lump (of clay or earth)

See also

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