different between mack vs mac

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæk/

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackerel (“pimp”)

Noun

mack (plural macks)

1. (slang) An individual skilled in the art of seduction using verbal skills.

   She left with him; he must be a true mack.

Derived terms

• mack daddy

Verb

mack (third-person singular simple present macks, present participle macking, simple past and past participle macked)

1. (slang) To act as pimp; to pander.

   Synonyms: hustle, whore out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out

2. (slang) To seduce or flirt with.

   Synonyms: entice, pick up

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of mackintosh

Noun

mack (plural macks)

1. (Britain) A raincoat or mackintosh.

Translations

Etymology 3

Blend of mast +? stack

Noun

mack (plural macks)

1. An element of a ship's superstructure which places the function of a ship's mast on its exhaust stack, adding the skeletal supporting structure to the smokestack to support the mast's complement of functions.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

mak +? -k

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat?sk/

Noun

mack m

1. Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale)

Declension

Further reading

• mack in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• mack in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Swedish

Etymology

Since 1920 from the trademark MACK, the abbreviation for "Mathiasson, Andersson, Collin, Key", the owners of one of the first companies that opened gas stations in Sweden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Noun

mack c

1. (somewhat colloquial) gas station

   Synonyms: bensinmack, bensinstation

Declension

References

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?k, 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. (Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni.

   Is there any mac and cheese left?

Derived terms

• mac 'n' cheese

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /m??k/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /m?a?k/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /m?ak/

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

1. son
2. A common prefix of many Irish and Scottish names, signifying "son of".

Declension

Coordinate terms

• iníon (“daughter”)

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "mac" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

K'iche'

Noun

mac

1. (Classical K'iche') sin

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ????? (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makk?os, a variant of *mak?os (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh??- (“to raise, increase”).

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

1. son

Derived terms

• mac-

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ????? (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makk?os, a variant of *mak?os (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh??- (“to raise, increase”).

Noun

mac m (genitive mic, nominative plural mic)

1. son

Descendants

• Irish: mac
• Manx: mac
• Scottish Gaelic: mac

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *makkos. Cognate with Welsh mach.

Noun

mac m

1. bond, surety

Inflection

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 mac(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *mak? (“poppy”), 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 ????? (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makk?os, a variant of *mak?os (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh??- (“to raise, increase”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma?k], [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

References

• “mac” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language