Feminine
mazza
Meaning
- (feminine) baton
- (feminine) club (weapon)
- (feminine) mace (ceremonial weapon)
- (feminine) bat
- (feminine) sledgehammer
- (feminine) maul
- (feminine) mallet
- (feminine, vulgar) penis
- (feminine) priest (tool for killing fishes)
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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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