maça

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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan maça, from Late Latin mattia or Vulgar Latin *mattea, probably from Latin mateola, from Proto-Indo-European *mat (hoe, plow). Compare Occitan massa, Spanish maza, Portuguese maça, French masse, Italian mazza.

Pronunciation

Noun

maça f (plural maces)

  1. mace (weapon)
  2. mallet

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese maça, from Late Latin mattia or Vulgar Latin *mattea, probably from Latin mateola, from Proto-Indo-European *mat (hoe, plow). Compare Spanish maza, Italian mazza, Catalan maça, French masse.

Noun

maça f (plural maças)

  1. mace (weapon)
  2. mallet (type of hammer with a head made of a non-iron material)
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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

maça

  1. inflection of maçar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ماچه (maça), from Greek μάτσα (mátsa) and Sicilian mazzi (cognate to Italian mazzi m pl).

Pronunciation

Noun

maça (definite accusative maçayı, plural maçalar)

  1. , spades in card- and boardgames

Declension

Inflection
Nominative maça
Definite accusative maçayı
Singular Plural
Nominative maça maçalar
Definite accusative maçayı maçaları
Dative maçaya maçalara
Locative maçada maçalarda
Ablative maçadan maçalardan
Genitive maçanın maçaların

Coordinate terms

Suits in Turkish · takım (layout · text)
kupa orya, karo maça ispati, sinek