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MaceEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English surname, from the personal name Masse, probably shortened from Matthew. Compare Massey, Massett. * As a French and Breton surname, from Macé, vernacular form of Mathieu. Compare Maze. * Also as a French surname, from Macé in Orne, from Late Latin Macciacum, from the personal name Maccius. * Also as a French surname, variant of Massé; see Masse.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗maceEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗maceEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English, from re-interpretation of macys as a plural (as with pea); from Latin macir. Doublet of macir.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗maceEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗maceEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Borrowed from Portuguese maz, from Malay mas (“gold”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- MaceEnglish · e-38538-7853
Mace, mās, n. a staff used as a mark of authority: a light, flat-headed stick in use at billiards before the introduction of the bridge or cue-rest: formerly, a weapon of war, consisting of a staff headed with a heavy sp
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Mace, mās, n. a kind of spice: the second coat of the nutmeg. [O. Fr. macis—L. macer—Gr. maker.]
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