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): (Valencia) [ˈma.sa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “maça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “maça” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “maça”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Old Leonese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin mattia or Vulgar Latin *mattea, probably from Latin mateola, from Proto-Indo-European *mat (“hoe, plow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡sa/

Noun

maça f

1. mace / mallet
   • 1316, "Some notes on the graphic representation of the predorsodental affricate sibilants in medieval Asturian"‎^[1]:

     vna masera e siete pichetes e vna maça de fierro

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Asturian: maza
• Leonese: maza
• Mirandese: maça

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.sa/

• (Portugal) 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

Further reading

• “maça”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “maça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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

Declension of maça

	singular	plural
nominative	maça	maçalar
definite accusative	maçayı	maçaları
dative	maçaya	maçalara
locative	maçada	maçalarda
ablative	maçadan	maçalardan
genitive	maçanın	maçaların