mac

See also: mać, mač, maç, mác, mãc, mặc, mắc, mạc, mąć, mac-, Mac, Mác, MAC, and Mac.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: măk, IPA^(key): /mæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackintosh.

Noun

mac (plural macs)

1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).

Translations

mackintosh — see mackintosh

Etymology 2

Clipping of macaroni.

Noun

mac (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni.

   Is there any mac and cheese left?

Derived terms

• mac 'n' cheese

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, slang) Clipping of maquereau (“pimp”).

Etymology 2

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

Further reading

• “mac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mˠɑk/
• IPA^(key): /mˠaːk/
• IPA^(key): /mˠak/

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

1. son
2. A common prefix of many Irish and Scottish names, signifying "son of".

   Dónall óg donn Mac Lochlainn ― young, brown-haired Donald, son of the Scandinavian

Declension

Declension of mac

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative mac mic Vocative a mhic a mhaca Genitive mic mac Dative mac mic

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an mac na mic Genitive an mhic na mac Dative leis an mac don mhac leis na mic

Coordinate terms

• iníon (“daughter”)

Derived terms

• An tAthair-Mhac
• Dia an Mac
• garmhac
• leanbh mic (“young son”)
• leasmhac
• mac an daba m (“ring finger”)
• mac léinn
• mac rí
• mac tíre
• macra
• millteán mic (“prodigal son”)
• oidhre mic (“male heir”)
• páiste mic (“young son”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mac	mhac	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mac”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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K'iche'

Noun

mac

1. (Classical K'iche') sin

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”).

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

1. son

Derived terms

• mac-

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

From a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  language, from Proto-Slavic *makъ (“poppy”), compare Serbo-Croatian and Polish mak.

Noun

mac m (plural maci)

1. poppy

Declension

Declension of mac

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mac	macul	(niște) maci	macii
genitive/dative	(unui) mac	macului	(unor) maci	macilor
vocative	macule		macilor

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

mac

1. quack (sound made by ducks)

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maʰk], [maxk]

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mic)

1. son
2. Commonly used as a prefix of Irish and Scottish surnames, meaning son.

   MacDhòmhnaill (“MacDonald”, literally “son of Donald, Donaldson”)

Derived terms

• mac-an-aba m (“ring finger”)
• macail (“filial”, adjective)
• uchd-mhac m (“adopted son”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
mac	mhac
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mac”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language