mac

See also: Mac, MAC, maç, and mac-

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: măk, IPA(key): /mæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackintosh.

Noun

mac (plural macs)

  1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of macaroni.

Noun

mac (uncountable)

  1. Clipping of macaroni.
    Is there any mac and cheese left?
Derived terms

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mak/

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

  1. (colloquial, slang) Clipping of maquereau (“pimp”)..
  2. (colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos).

Pronunciation

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

  1. son
  2. A common prefix of many Irish and Scottish names, signifying "son of".
    Dónall óg donn Mac Lochlainn ― young, brown-haired Donald, son of the Scandinavian

Declension

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mac mhac not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "mac" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 mac, macc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”).

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

  1. son

Derived terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
macvacunchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “1 mac, macc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian and Polish mak.

Noun

mac m (plural maci)

  1. poppy
Declension

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

mac

  1. quack (sound made by ducks)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [maʰk], [maxk]

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mic)

  1. son
  2. Commonly used as a prefix of Irish and Scottish surnames, meaning son.
    MacDhòmhnaill (“MacDonald”, literally “son of Donald, Donaldson”)

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
macmhac
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “1 mac, macc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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