different between maco vs macho

English

Noun

maco (uncountable)

1. An Egyptian cotton once used to make underwear and stockings.

Anagrams

• OAMC, camo, coma

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish majo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ma.ku/

Adjective

maco (feminine maca, masculine plural macos, feminine plural maques)

1. beautiful, pretty

   Synonym: bonic

2. nice, lovely

   Synonym: agradable

Derived terms

• quemaco

Further reading

• “maco” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “maco” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat?so/
• Hyphenation: ma?co
• Rhymes: -at?so

Noun

maco (accusative singular macon, plural macoj, accusative plural macojn)

1. matzo, matzah

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mako/, [?ma.ko]

Noun

maco m (plural macos)

1. prison

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæt???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?t?o?/
• Rhymes: -æt???, -??t???

Adjective

macho (comparative more macho, superlative most macho)

1. (informal) tending to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, bravado, etc., in ways that are showily and histrionically tough

Translations

Noun

macho (plural machos)

1. A macho person; a person who tends to display masculine characteristics, such as domineering, fierceness, and bravado.
2. The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).
3. A male llama.

Synonyms

• (macho person): macho man; see also Thesaurus:hypermasculine man

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• Mocha, mocha

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish macho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.t?o?/
• Hyphenation: ma?cho

Adjective

macho (comparative meer macho, superlative meest macho)

1. macho (pertaining to machismo)

Inflection

Derived terms

• machoman

Noun

macho m (plural macho's)

1. A macho male.

Finnish

Adjective

macho (comparative machompi, superlative machoin)

1. macho

Declension

Noun

macho

1. macho

Declension

Compounds

• machomies

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish macho, from Latin masculus. Doublet of mâle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat.?o/

Noun

macho m (plural machos)

1. One who is excessively or aggressively masculine or misogynistic; a chauvinist.

   Synonym: machiste

Derived terms

• machisme, machiste

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• chôma

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested from the 13th century. From Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”). Cognate with Spanish macho and Portuguese macho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat??o?/

Adjective

macho m or f (plural machos)

1. male

Noun

macho m (plural machos)

1. male
   • 1299, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 211:

     Item mãdo ao moe?teyro de Santiago d Ermelo o meu quinõ das egóás que eu auya c? Johan Martinz, o ffrade [...] os fillos que ?on machos que os vendan ?e qui?eren vender ? a? egoas que fiquen c? ?uas fillas femeas

     Item, I bequeath my share of the mares that I have together with Xoán Martís, the friar, to the monastery of Santiago de Ermelo [...] the sons which are males shall be sold if they [the monks] wanted to, and the mares shall remain with their female daughters

   Antonym: femia

2. stud
3. mule
   • c1771, anonymous; Rosario Álvarez & Ernesto González (eds.), Décima xiringatoria:

     Endemal! non falás rouco,

     mais eu à tanto desfacho,

     (como dixo ô ôutro) a macho

     que hè lerdo, arrieiro louco.

     Por moito que eu malle, hè pouco;

     que a quen do principio aò cabo,

     sin fazer caso do crabo,

     tàs peras tira meu frade,

     conven (xiquera à semade)

     que lle zorreguen ô rabo.

     Alas! you don't speak rough,

     but I, to such impertinence,

     as they say, to dumb mule,

     mad muleteer.

     No matter how much I strike, is not enough;

     because to whom, beginning to end,

     not paying attention to the nail,

     your pears drop, my friar,

     it is advisable (at least summarily)

     that they whip their tail

4. piece which enters into another

Derived terms

• machismo
• machista

Related terms

• masculino

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese [Term?], probably from Latin marculus (“hammer”), a diminutive of marcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat??o?/

Noun

macho m (plural machos)

1. (regional) rammer

References

• “macho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “macho” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “macho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “macho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “macho” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish macho. Doublet of maschio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.t??o/
• Hyphenation: ma?cho

Adjective

macho (invariable)

1. macho

Noun

macho m (invariable)

1. macho

Polish

Etymology

From Spanish macho, from Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin m?sculus (“male”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.t???/

Noun

macho m pers (indeclinable)

1. macho (macho person)

Further reading

• macho in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• macho in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese macho, from Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”), from m?s (“male, man”), -culus (“forms diminutives”). Doublet of másculo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.?u/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ma.?o/
• Hyphenation: ma?cho

Adjective

macho m (feminine singular macha, masculine plural machos, feminine plural machas, comparable)

1. male (belonging or referring to the sex having the smaller gametes)

   Synonym: masculino

   Antonyms: fêmeo, feminino

2. macho; manly

   Synonyms: másculo, varonil, viril

   Antonyms: bicha, cagão, covarde, marica, mulherzinha

3. male (of instruments or tools: designed to fit into or penetrate a “female” counterpart)

Noun

macho m (plural machos)

1. male

   Antonym: fêmea

2. macho; manly man

   Antonyms: bicha, cagão, covarde, marica, mulherzinha

Related terms

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: matchu

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat??o/, [?ma.t??o]
• Hyphenation: ma?cho

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”). Doublet of másculo.

Adjective

macho (feminine macha, masculine plural machos, feminine plural machas)

1. male
2. strong, brave
3. (Costa Rica) blond, blonde

   Synonym: rubio

Usage notes

• When used as an adjective specifying that an animal is male, macho traditionally is invariable for both gender and number: el pollo macho "the male chicken", los pollos macho "the male chickens", la jirafa macho "the male giraffe", las jirafas macho "the male giraffes". However, some speakers use the form "machos" with plural agreement marked by adding the suffix -s to the adjective: los pollos machos, las jirafas machos.

• The feminine forms macha and machas are rare. Marimacho and masculino are used to describe masculine women.

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: matso
• ? English: macho
• ? Tagalog: matso

References

Noun

macho m (plural machos)

1. male

   Antonym: hembra

2. (slang, Spain) dude

Noun

macho m (plural machos, feminine macha, feminine plural machas)

1. (Costa Rica) person with blond hair

   Synonym: rubio

Derived terms

Related terms

• masculino

Etymology 2

Two alternative theories are:

• From Latin marculus (“hammer”), a diminutive of marcus, itself related to the base of malleus.
• Variant of mazo (“club”).

Noun

macho m (plural machos)

1. sledgehammer
2. anvil

Verb

macho

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of machar.

Further reading

• “macho” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Noun

macho

1. plural of jicho