macio

Uncertain

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaθjo̝/

macio m (feminine singular macia, masculine plural macios, feminine plural macias)

1. soft
2. haggard, faded, faint, pale
3. flabby, flaccid

• “macio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “macio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “macio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

• machiō
• mazōnus, mazunus (Medieval France and Britain)

From a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with matia (“club, mace”), from Proto-West Germanic *mattijō (“cutting tool, hoe, chisel”), from Proto-Indo-European *matn- (“hoe, mattock”).

• (Proto-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /maˈt͡sone/ (oblique)

maciō m (genitive maciōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) One who works on a scaffold, a mason

Third-declension noun.

• Old French: maçon
  • Middle French: maçon
    • French: maçon

• macio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Uncertain. Possibly from massa (“dough”) +‎ -io. Or, from Arabic ماسي‎ (masi). Also compare Italian and Latin malacia, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”). Cognates with Proto-Slavic *mękъkъ (“soft”).

• Hyphenation: ma‧ci‧o

macio (feminine macia, masculine plural macios, feminine plural macias, comparable, comparative mais macio, superlative o mais macio or maciíssimo)

1. soft

• maco

From Mandarin 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”).

• IPA^(key): [mat͡sʰ(ʲ)o]

macio

1. bird

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN