mace

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A heavy fighting club.
2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
4. An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
6. (archaic) A billiard cue.

Verb

To hit someone or something with a mace.

Verb

1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
2. (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

Conceptos

maza

macis

mazo

🔨

nuez moscada

moscadero

Sinónimos

club

staff

scepter

macebearer

wand

macer

cudgel

rod

sceptre

nutmeg

pole

baton

truncheon

stick

myristica

billy

bludgeon

buldgeon

pestle

shillelagh

verge

nutmeg tree

war club

muscade

muskatel

nutmeg’s cover

myristica fragrans

bat

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Traducciones

macis

mazza

masse

macis

macis

maça

Streitkolben

Mazis

Muskatblüte

maça

μοσχοκάρυδο

massue

foelie

απελατίκι

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/meɪs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: mace

Cognado con italiano: mazza

Cognado con español: maza

Heredado de inglés medio: -

In summary

From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).