Noun: machete
| Singular | machete |
| Plural | machetes |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang
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It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with a machete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face. [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 384:]
Nouns inflected like machete
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace. See: Spanish Nouns '
machete', Latin Nouns '
mattea', French Nouns '
massue'.