marteau
French
noun
Definitions
- A hammer used for pounding.
- A machine tool working by pounding.
- A hammer-shaped tool used to hit thing, such as a gavel.
- A rapper; a door knocker.
- (music) A piano or dulcimer hammer.
- (anatomy) The malleus.
- (athletics) A throwing hammer.
- (technical) A hammer with bas relief marks used to imprint on wood, leather etc.
- (curling) Advantage of throwing the last stone.
- (clockmaking) A piece that strikes the bell in a clock.
Etymology
Inherited from Old French marteaus inherited from Latin martellus, marcus.
Origin
Latin
marcus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- marculus Latin
- marcus Latin
- martellus Latin
- martulus Latin
- martello Italian
- amartillar Spanish, Castilian
- martillazo Spanish, Castilian
- martilleo Spanish, Castilian
- martillo Spanish, Castilian
- marco Portuguese
- *markō Proto-Germanic
- marteaus Old French
- martel Old French
- martelo Esperanto
- martell Catalan, Valencian
- martelo Galician
- martilyo Cebuano
- morthwyl Welsh
- martilyo Tagalog
- martelo Old Portuguese
- martiellu Asturian
- martiel Friulian
- *mark Frankish
- martiello Old Spanish
- marteddu Sicilian
- morthol Cornish
- marto Mauritian Creole
- martilyo Bikol Central
- martellu Corsican
- martiello Aragonese
- marto Seychellois Creole
- mato Antillean Creole
- martèl Emilian
- moltìyu’úna Taos
- martiy Zoogocho Zapotec
- martiellu Leonese
- martillo Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl
- martíyo Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec
- ma̱rtiyo Ayutla Mixtec
- martiyu Sinicahua Mixtec