maquis
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican machja (related to Italian macchia), ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula.
Pronunciation
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Noun
maquis (uncountable)
- (botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. [from 19th c.]
- 2007 May 27, Alida Becker, “Season in the Sun”, in New York Times[1]:
- The older man claims to find a measure of peace in Corsica’s wild landscape, and as Mitchell explores the foothills of maquis, fragrant with “the sharp resinous smell of laurel rose and thyme,” he too succumbs.
- (historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. [from 1940s]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 75:
- By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 75:
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French
Etymology
From Corsican machja or macchia, from Latin macula (“spot”), with addition of the suffix -is.
Pronunciation
Noun
maquis m (plural maquis)
- (botany) macchia (Mediterranean brush)
- (botany) thicket
- Synonym: broussaille
- (figuratively, historical, military) resistance, underground (movement during World War II)
- Synonym: guérilla
Derived terms
Further reading
- “maquis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican macchia, from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula.
Noun
maquis m (invariable)
Noun
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- maquis (member of the French resistance during the Second World War)
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
maquis m or f (plural maquis)
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