Feminine

mazza

Meaning

  1. (feminine) baton
  2. (feminine) club (weapon)
  3. (feminine) mace (ceremonial weapon)
  4. (feminine) bat
  5. (feminine) sledgehammer
  6. (feminine) maul
  7. (feminine) mallet
  8. (feminine, vulgar) penis
  9. (feminine) priest (tool for killing fishes)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
màz‧za
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmat.t͡sa/
Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mattea (compare French masse, Spanish maza, Portuguese maça), probably vulgarly formed from Latin mateola (“hoe”). Cf. also Latin matia.

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