mason

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick
2. One who prepares stone for building purposes.
3. A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

Verb

To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons

Sinónimos

bricklayer

stonemason

builder

freemason

brick-layer

plasterer

tiler

masonry

brick

skilled workman

bricky

brickie

white-washer

home-builder

stone-mason

stonecutter

build

constructor

engineer

freestone

homebuilder

housebuilder

Traducións

maçon

albañil

Maurer

muratore

metselaar

pedreiro

duvarcı

paleta

franc-maçon

maçom

κτίστης

μασόνος

Freimaurer

maçonner

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈmeɪsən/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: masoun

In summary

From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from Frankish *makjō (“maker, builder”), a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *metn-, *met- (“to cut”).