maçon
French
Etymology
From Middle French maçon (“mason”) from Old French maçon, masson, machun (“brick-layer”), from Late Latin maciō, machiō (“carpenter, brick-layer”) (attested 7th century by Isidore de Séville), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *makjo (“builder, maker”), derivative of *makōn (“to build, make, work”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Frankish *mattijo (“cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *mattijô, *mattukaz (“ploughshare, mattock”), from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, mattock”). Akin to Old High German steinmezzo (“stone mason”), mahhōn (“to make, work”). More at make, mattock.
Pronunciation
Noun
maçon m (plural maçons)
Further reading
- “maçon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Alternative forms
- macon (older manuscripts)
Etymology
Noun
maçon m (plural maçons)
Descendants
- French: maçon
Old French
Alternative forms
- macon (manuscript form)
Pronunciation
Noun
maçon oblique singular, m (oblique plural maçons, nominative singular maçons, nominative plural maçon)
- 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.
- He searched for masons and carpenters
Descendants
Portuguese
Noun
maçon m (plural s)
- Alternative form of mação
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Late Latin
- French terms derived from Late Latin
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Middle French terms derived from Old French
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- Old French terms with IPA pronunciation
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