Noun: maza
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | maza |
| Plural f | mazas |
Sample Sentences
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Iten, mando vender a miña cóffea do çendal e hua maça d'açeyro et se meta en missas por miña alma (Item, I order that they should sell my sendal coif and a steel mace, to be put in masses for my soul) [1361, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 92:]
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Desý ajuntárõse todos, et alý se cõmeçou hũ torneo et hũ acapelamento tã cruu et tã sen piadade que esto sería hũa grã marauilla de contar, ca nũca fuj õme ẽno mũdo quen uisse tal rresoar de maças et d'espadas perlos elmos et perlos escudos. (Then everyone came together, and it began a tournament and a carnage so crude and pitiless that it would be a great wonder to narrate it; because never was a man in the world who ever saw [sic] such a resounding of maces and swords on the helms and shields) [1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 518:]
Nouns inflected like maza
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese maça, from Vulgar Latin *ma(t)tea, from Latin mateola, from a Proto-Indo-European root describing similar tools: Old High German medela (“plow”), Old Church Slavonic мотыка (motyka, “mattock”), मत्य (matya, “club, harrow”).
2. Cognate with Portuguese maça, Spanish maza, Catalan maça, French masse, Italian mazza. See: Latin Nouns '
mateola', Portuguese Nouns '
maça', Spanish Nouns '
maza', Catalan Nouns '
maça', French Nouns '
masse', Italian Nouns '
mazza'.
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