maçon

See also Mâcon, and Macon

Anglo-Norman

Pronunciation

• IPA: /masõn/

Noun

maçon m. (oblique plural maçons, nominative singular maçons, nominative plural maçon)

1. mason; builder
   • circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     Maçons fist querre et carpenters
     Si fist refaire les mousters

     He searched for masons and carpenters
     in order to rebuild the minsters.

Descendants

• English: mason

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French

Etymology

From Middle French maçon "mason" from Old French maçon, masson, machun "brick-layer", from Late Latin macio, machio "carpenter, brick-layer" (attested 7^thc by Isidore de Séville), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *makjo ("builder, maker"), derivative of Frankish *makōn, *makjan ("to build, make, work"), from Proto-Germanic *makōnan (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Frankish *matjo ("cutter"), from Proto-Germanic *matjan, *mattukaz (“ploghshare, mattock”), from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, mattock”). Akin to Old High German steinmezzo, Old High German mahhōn (“to make, work”). More at make, mattock.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /masɔ̃/

Noun

maçon m. (plural maçons)

1. mason, stonemason; builder
2. (freemasonry) Mason, Freemason

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Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /masõn/

Noun

maçon m. (oblique plural maçons, nominative singular maçons, nominative plural maçon)

1. mason; builder

Descendants

• English: mason
• French: maçon