maçon

Etymology

From Middle French maçon (“mason”) from Old French maçon, masson, machun (“brick-layer”), from Late Latin maciō, machiō (“carpenter, brick-layer”) (attested 7th century by Isidore de Séville), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *makjo (“builder, maker”), derivative of *makōn (“to build, make, work”), from Proto-Germanic *makōną (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Frankish *mattijo (“cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *mattijô, *mattukaz (“ploughshare, mattock”), from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, mattock”). Akin to Old High German steinmezzo (“stone mason”), mahhōn (“to make, work”). More at make, mattock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.sɔ̃/

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Noun

maçon m (plural maçons)

1. mason, stonemason; builder
2. (freemasonry) Mason, Freemason

Further reading

• “maçon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Alternative forms

• macon (older manuscripts)

Etymology

Old French maçon.

Noun

maçon m (plural maçons)

1. mason; builder

Alternative forms

• macon (manuscript form)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈt͡sõn/

Noun

maçon m (oblique plural maçons, nominative singular maçons, nominative plural maçon)

1. mason; builder
   • circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     Maçons fist querre et carpenters
     Si fist refaire les mousters

     He searched for masons and carpenters
     in order to rebuild the minsters.

Noun

maçon m (plural maçons)

1. Alternative form of mação