maça

See also: Appendix:Variations of "maca"

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈma.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈma.sa]
• Homophone: massa
• Rhymes: -asa

Noun

maça f (plural maces)

1. mace (weapon)
2. mallet

Derived terms

• macer
• maceta
• maçola

References

• “maça” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “maça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “maça” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “maça” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.sɐ/

• Rhymes: -asɐ
• Homophone: massa
• Hyphenation: ma‧ça

Etymology 1

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)

Synonyms

• clava, cacete, porrete

Derived terms

• maço

Related terms

• maçar

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

• IPA^(key): [mɑt͡ʃɑ]

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