maçonero

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Old French maçon (“mason, builder”) +‎ -ero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat͡soˈneɾo/

Noun

maçonero m (plural maçoneros)

1. mason, stonemason
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49r:

     […] e enbẏo amonte libano .lxxx. mil om̃s q̃ taiaſſen madera. e .lxx. mil maçoneros pora la obra de la piedra ſin los maẏorales q̃ les comendauan q̃ auien a fer.

     […] And he sent to Mount Lebanon eighty thousand men to cut wood and seventy thousand masons for the working of stone, besides the foremen who commanded them what they were to do.

Descendants

• Spanish: mazonero