macho
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmæt͡ʃ.əʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑː.t͡ʃoʊ/
- Rhymes: -ætʃəʊ, -ɑːtʃəʊ
Adjective edit
macho (comparative more macho, superlative most macho)
- (informal) Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
- macho culture
- 1997, George Carlin, “SPORTS ROUNDUP”, in Brain Droppings[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 56:
- I like sports because I enjoy knowing that many of these macho athletes have to vomit before a big game. Any guy who would take a job where you gotta puke first is my kinda guy.
- 2017 September 4, “End ‘macho’ Brexit posturing, Anna Soubry urges May”, in The Guardian[2]:
- The government’s “bullish” and “macho” approach to Brexit should not stop Conservative backbenchers from tabling amendments to the crucial repeal bill, a leading Tory remainer has said.
- 2020 October 15, Francine Prose, “Trump's macho bravado is an embarrassment. Yet it puts us all in danger”, in The Guardian[3]:
- Joseph Biden has described Donald Trump’s refusal to wear a mask as “macho”, an insult unlikely to wound a president, who, before his illness, began rallies with speakers blasting the Village People’s 1979 song Macho Man.
Translations edit
Noun edit
macho (plural machos)
- A macho person; a man who is masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
- Synonyms: macho man; see also Thesaurus:hypermasculine man
- Antonyms: see Thesaurus:effeminate man
- 1978, “Macho Man”, performed by Village People:
- You can tell a macho, he has a funky walk / His western shirts and leather, always look so boss
- The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).
- A male llama.
- Coordinate term: hembra
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Related terms edit
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
macho (comparative meer macho, superlative meest macho)
- macho (pertaining to machismo)
Inflection edit
Inflection of macho | ||||
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uninflected | macho | |||
inflected | macho | |||
comparative | meer macho | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | macho | meer macho | het meest macho het meest machoe | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | macho | meer machoe | meest machoe |
n. sing. | macho | meer macho | meest machoe | |
plural | macho | meer machoe | meest machoe | |
definite | macho | meer machoe | meest machoe | |
partitive | macho's | meer macho's | — |
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
macho m (plural macho's)
- A macho male.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
macho (comparative machompi, superlative machoin)
Declension edit
Inflection of macho (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | macho | machot | |
genitive | machon | machojen | |
partitive | machoa | machoja | |
illative | machoon | machoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | macho | machot | |
accusative | nom. | macho | machot |
gen. | machon | ||
genitive | machon | machojen | |
partitive | machoa | machoja | |
inessive | machossa | machoissa | |
elative | machosta | machoista | |
illative | machoon | machoihin | |
adessive | macholla | machoilla | |
ablative | macholta | machoilta | |
allative | macholle | machoille | |
essive | machona | machoina | |
translative | machoksi | machoiksi | |
abessive | machotta | machoitta | |
instructive | — | machoin | |
comitative | — | machoine |
Noun edit
macho
Declension edit
Inflection of macho (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | macho | machot | ||
genitive | machon | machojen | ||
partitive | machoa | machoja | ||
illative | machoon | machoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | macho | machot | ||
accusative | nom. | macho | machot | |
gen. | machon | |||
genitive | machon | machojen | ||
partitive | machoa | machoja | ||
inessive | machossa | machoissa | ||
elative | machosta | machoista | ||
illative | machoon | machoihin | ||
adessive | macholla | machoilla | ||
ablative | macholta | machoilta | ||
allative | macholle | machoille | ||
essive | machona | machoina | ||
translative | machoksi | machoiksi | ||
abessive | machotta | machoitta | ||
instructive | — | machoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Compounds edit
Further reading edit
- “macho”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish macho, from Latin masculus. Doublet of mâle.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
macho m (plural machos)
- One who is excessively or aggressively masculine or misogynistic; a chauvinist
- Synonym: machiste
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “macho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Attested from the 13th century. From Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”). Cognate with Spanish macho and Portuguese macho.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
macho m or f (plural machos)
Noun edit
macho m (plural machos)
- male
- 1299, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 211:
- Item mãdo ao moeſteyro de Santiago d Ermelo o meu quinõ das egóás que eu auya cũ Johan Martinz, o ffrade [...] os fillos que ſon machos que os vendan ſe quiſeren vender τ aſ egoas que fiquen cũ ſuas fillas femeas
- Item, I bequeath my share of the mares that I have together with Xoán Martís, the friar, to the monastery of Santiago de Ermelo [...] the sons which are males shall be sold if they [the monks] wanted to, and the mares shall remain with their female daughters
- Item mãdo ao moeſteyro de Santiago d Ermelo o meu quinõ das egóás que eu auya cũ Johan Martinz, o ffrade [...] os fillos que ſon machos que os vendan ſe quiſeren vender τ aſ egoas que fiquen cũ ſuas fillas femeas
- Coordinate term: femia
- 1299, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 211:
- stud
- mule
- c. 1771, anonymous, Rosario Álvarez, Ernesto González, editors, Décima xiringatoria[5]:
- Endemal! non falás rouco,
mais eu à tanto desfacho,
(como dixo ô ôutro) a macho
que hè lerdo, arrieiro louco.
Por moito que eu malle, hè pouco;
que a quen do principio aò cabo,
sin fazer caso do crabo,
tàs peras tira meu frade,
conven (xiquera à semade)
que lle zorreguen ô rabo.- Alas! you don't speak rough,
but I, to such impertinence,
as they say, to dumb mule,
mad muleteer.
No matter how much I strike, is not enough;
because to whom, beginning to end,
not paying attention to the nail,
your pears drop, my friar,
it is advisable (at least summarily)
that they whip their tail
- Alas! you don't speak rough,
- piece which enters into another
Derived terms edit
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Etymology 2 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], probably from Latin marculus (“hammer”), a diminutive of marcus.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
macho m (plural machos)
References edit
- “macho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “macho” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “macho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “macho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “macho” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “macho II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish macho. Doublet of maschio.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
macho (invariable)
Noun edit
macho m (invariable)
Further reading edit
- macho in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- macho in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- macho in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- macho in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- macho in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- macho in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- macho in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish macho.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
macho m pers (indeclinable)
- macho (macho person)
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Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese macho, from Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”), from mās (“male, man”), -culus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of másculo.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
macho (feminine macha, masculine plural machos, feminine plural machas)
- male (belonging or referring to the sex having the smaller gametes)
- macho; manly
- male (of instruments or tools: designed to fit into or penetrate a “female” counterpart)
Noun edit
macho m (plural machos)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Kabuverdianu: matchu
Further reading edit
- “macho” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “macho” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “macho” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “macho” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “macho” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “macho” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish macho or French macho.
Noun edit
macho m (plural macho)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin māsclus, contracted form of Latin māsculus (“male”). Doublet of másculo.
Adjective edit
macho (feminine macha, masculine plural machos, feminine plural machas)
Usage notes edit
- When used as an adjective specifying that an animal is male, macho traditionally is invariable for both gender and number: el pollo macho "the male chicken", los pollos macho "the male chickens", la jirafa macho "the male giraffe", las jirafas macho "the male giraffes".[1] However, some speakers use the form "machos" with plural agreement marked by adding the suffix -s to the adjective: los pollos machos, las jirafas machos.
- To describe masculine women, other words such as marimacho and masculino are used. The feminine forms macha and machas are rare, but exist for sense 3.
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ “género” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN
Noun edit
macho m (plural machos)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Two alternative theories are:
- From Latin marculus (“hammer”), a diminutive of marcus, itself related to the base of malleus.
- Variant of mazo (“club”).
Noun edit
macho m (plural machos)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
macho m (plural machos, feminine macha, feminine plural machas)
- (Costa Rica) person with blond hair
- Synonym: rubio
Etymology 4 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
macho
Further reading edit
- “macho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
macho
Swedish edit
Adjective edit
macho (comparative mer macho, superlative mest macho)
Usage notes edit
Uninflected.
Noun edit
macho c
- a macho (macho person)
Declension edit
Declension of macho | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | macho | machon | machos | machosarna |
Genitive | machos | machons | machos | machosarnas |