maquis
French
noun
Definitions
- (botany) macchia Mediterranean brush
- (botany) thicket
- (figuratively) resistance, underground movement during World War II
Etymology
Derived from Corsican machja derived from Latin macula (stain, spot, blemish, mesh, fault).
Origin
Latin
macula
Gloss
stain, spot, blemish, mesh, fault
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- macchia English
- macula lutea English
- maquis English
- maquisard English
- *mac(u)lÄtus, *maculatus Latin
- *macla Latin
- *maculata, *mac(u)lÄta Latin
- macella Latin
- macula Latin
- maculipennis Latin
- maculithorax Latin
- maculiventris Latin
- maculosus Latin
- mascula Latin
- makula Hungarian
- macchietta Italian
- macula Italian
- macle French
- macule French
- maille French
- maquisard French
- mangla Spanish, Castilian
- maquis Spanish, Castilian
- mƔcula Spanish, Castilian
- *smhā-tlehā Proto-Indo-European
- maquis Portuguese
- mƔcula Portuguese
- mƔgoa Portuguese
- macula Middle English
- maille Old French
- maquerel Old French
- makulo Esperanto
- mĆ cula Catalan, Valencian
- mancha Galician
- mƔgoa Galician
- magl Welsh
- makel Middle High German
- *smatlo- Proto-Italic
- magle Friulian
- malha Old Occitan
- macchia Corsican
- machja Corsican