Mace Definition

Origin of Mace

• Middle English, from Anglo-Norman mace, mache, from Late Latin mattia or *mattea (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), from Proto-Indo-European *mat (“hoe, plow") (compare Latin mateola (“hoe"), Old High German medela (“plow"), Russian мотыга (motýga, “hoe, mattock"), Persian آماج (āmāǰ) "˜plow', Sanskrit मत्य (matyá, “harrow")).

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• Middle English from Old French from Medieval Latin macis alteration of Latin macir fragrant ailanthus resin from Greek makir

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Middle English from Old French masse from Vulgar Latin mattea

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Borrowing from Javanese and Malay, meaning "a bean".

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• Sense of tear gas, from the trade name Mace.

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