different between maquis vs fynbos

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican machja (related to Italian macchia), ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macula.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?maki?/, /ma?ki?/

Noun

maquis (uncountable)

1. (botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. [from 19th c.]
2. (historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. [from 1940s]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 75:

     By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.

Translations

Anagrams

• umiaqs

French

Etymology

From Corsican machja or macchia, from Latin macula (“spot”), with addition of the suffix -is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ki/

Noun

maquis m (plural maquis)

1. (botany) macchia (Mediterranean brush)
2. (botany) thicket

   Synonym: broussaille

3. (figuratively, historical, military) resistance, underground (movement during World War II)

   Synonym: guérilla

Derived terms

• maquisard
• prendre le maquis

Descendants

• ? English: maquis
• ? Portuguese: maquis
• ? Spanish: maquis

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• maqui

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquis, from Corsican macchia, from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula. Doublet of mancha, malha, mágoa, mangra, and mácula.

Noun

maquis m (plural maquis)

1. maquis; macchia (type of brushland common in Corsica)

Noun

maquis m, f (plural maquis)

1. maquis (member of the French resistance during the Second World War)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquis.

Noun

maquis m or f (plural maquis)

1. maquis (Resistance during the Second World War)
2. maquis (member of the Resistance during the Second World War)

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans fynbos (“fynbos”), from Afrikaans fyn (“fine”) and bos (“bush”).

Noun

fynbos (uncountable)

1. (botany) Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of Proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
   • 1992, Reader's Digest, The Great South African Outdoors

     The southern and western Cape is the home of a unique type of vegitation known as fynbos. Covering around 90 000 square kilometers of often harsh terrain, fynbos is made up of approximately 6 000 different plant species.

Related terms

• macchia
• macchie
• maquis

Translations

References

• Reader's Digest: The Great South African Outdoors: Reader's Digest 1992.