mãtsucã

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• mãciucã

Etymology

Unknown. Cognate to Romanian măciucă. Often considered to be from the Vulgar Latin root *matteūca, itself from *mattea or Latin mateola + a suffix *-ūca, of possibly Gallic origin (compare French massue, Occitan maçuga, Portuguese maça, machuca, Old Galician-Portuguese massuca, Italian mazza, mazzocca, Venetian mazuco). Compare also Italian maciulla, Spanish machucar. Alternatively from Vulgar Latin mattiūca, itself from Late Latin mattia.

Noun

mãtsucã f (plural mãtsutsi or mãtsutse)

1. club