different between maquis vs macchia

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 Corsican machja, related to Italian macchia and French maquis; ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæk.?a/

Noun

macchia (uncountable)

1. A shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs.

Related terms

• maquis

Translations

Further reading

• maquis shrubland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mak.kja/
• Rhymes: -akkja
• Hyphenation: màc?chia

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula. Doublet of macula, a borrowing.

Noun

macchia f (plural macchie)

1. stain, smear
2. spot, fleck
3. (figuratively) blot, speck, disgrace
4. (figuratively, uncommon) defect, flaw

   Synonyms: difetto, neo

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• macchia¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

A semantic extension of the above.

Noun

macchia f (plural macchie)

1. shrub, bush, brake
2. macchia (shrubland biota)
3. (transferred sense) Generic name for plants commonly found in a macchia

Derived terms

References

• macchia² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

macchia

1. inflection of macchiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• macachi