măciucă
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. 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, Portuguese maça, machuca, Old Galician-Portuguese massuca, Italian mazza, mazzocca, Venetian mazuco), or an expressive creation based on the root măc-. Compare also Italian maciulla, Spanish machucar. The first element may derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, plow”).
Alternatively from Vulgar Latin mattiūca, itself from Late Latin mattia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
măciucă f (plural măciuci)
Declension edit
Declension of măciucă
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) măciucă | măciuca | (niște) măciuci | măciucile |
genitive/dative | (unei) măciuci | măciucii | (unor) măciuci | măciucilor |
vocative | măciucă, măciuco | măciucilor |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Polish: maczuga